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Best For Removing Everything On THe Hard Drive

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AMDawG1800

Junior Member
What is the BEST software for removing EVERYTHING from the hard drive...so that the hard drive is "like brand new" just as it came when you got it?
 
I would load a *nix bootdisk and do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0c or whatever is appropriate for your version of *nix -- I'm an OpenBSD user. That would write a 0x00 to every byte on the drive.
 
actually you would want to do "if=/dev/random" - so to write 'random' information to the drive. you should repeat this several times (dod specs require 7 wipes, IRC).

you can get a linux bootdisk here
 
most disk manufacturers have a low level wiping utility that you can ownload from their website. ibm has their drive fitness test, etc. any of these will let you do a complete wipe of the hd. if you are paranoid, do it 10 times.
 
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