hard drive cleaning

[rickoshea]

Hi A/Bs Can anyone out there recommend a hard drive cleaning software program that will securely scrub the hard drive prior to selling machine

thanks in anticipation


Rick

[VHG]

DBAN will do it (Dariks Boot and Nuke) but that scrubs the whole disk and you need to reinstall any software you want on the disk (Windows etc).

http://www.dban.org/

CCleaner has a component called Drive Wiper that will scrub the empty part of the disk (that with nothing on it) but that leaves your current software untouched.

CCleaner can also clear out temp files and so on, but may not clar out all personal informaiton.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

[VHG]

Note on a large hard drive it can take HOURS to scrub a hard disk.

I am in the middle of using Drive Wiper to clean out the empty part of a 500Gb hard drive, and it is taking over 5 hours.

DBan has numerous scrub options (each more and more secure) but they can take all day and night to run on a large hard drive.

[deggers316]

http://download.cnet.com/DriveScrubber/3000-2092_4-10215664.html

but if you have got some very important and private stuff on your hard drive the only complete secure way is too take it out and smash with with a lump hammer, sell it without a hard drive ,you can buy new ones very cheap

[rickoshea]

THanks to all kind replies especially Deggers316 sounds drastic but fun
regards to all
Rick