Completely wiping out a hard drive?

baldyguy · Jan 9, 2005

Hello everyone,

I want to sell a hard drive to my friend, but before I do that, I want to be able to wipe out my hard drive clean. I know that formatting the hard drive doesn't really do the job, I heard that I need to overwrite all of the bytes with 0's.

Is there a program or a method that I can use to do this? Thank you all in advance!

PhobMX · Jan 9, 2005

baldyguy said:
Hello everyone,

I want to sell a hard drive to my friend, but before I do that, I want to be able to wipe out my hard drive clean. I know that formatting the hard drive doesn't really do the job, I heard that I need to overwrite all of the bytes with 0's.

Is there a program or a method that I can use to do this? Thank you all in advance!

just get a standalone disk manager from your hds manufacturer and do a low level format, that should do the job

tom10167 · Jan 9, 2005

Are you really worried that your friend is going to sit there and try and pull back whatever kind of salvagable data there may happen to be?

It's not really something you need to worry about.

iLLestOne · Jan 9, 2005

Do those "Write all Zero's" programs delete all the data?
I have a faulty HD i'm sending for RMA, and would like all my data gone, just incase! What if a WD employee tries to turn in one of my papers! lol

jcw122 · Jan 9, 2005

hmm...mabe take a magnet to the sucka-foo of a HD? hahaha! jk that owuldnt help at all

Tmod · Jan 9, 2005

Killdisk Give that a try!

It's free and works great.

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