Erasing all data on hard drive?

[nikko]

I just bought a couple of huge hard drives to replace 3 smaller ones. So
I'm selling the three smaller ones on eBay. But before I send them out, I
want to completely erase everything on them. What's the easiest way to do
that? Is there a way to do it within Windows XP? Or do I need to go to a
DOS Prompt? Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[woodie1]

The safest way is to use the drive manufacturer's utility for that. Go to their web site and download the utilities there.

 

[FearOrLove]

Use this.
http://www.webattack.com/get/killdisk.shtml

 

[wetcat007]

Partition Magic 8 is the best in windows way to do it, check download.com for killdisk, hehe if you run it in windows, on the drive ur using it's hilarious, u get to see windows get really screwed up, and have symbolized error boxes come up, but it also makes a bootable disk so u can do it from that the correct way.

 

[SFang]

Uh.. How about formatting, or fdisk to remove the partition.

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: SFang
Uh.. How about formatting, or fdisk to remove the partition.

that won't zero out all the sectors. someone can still run an undelete or sector recovery tool and see all of your data.

 

[bacillus]

you can try this!

 

[Whitedog]

Don't erase. Just load them down with Porn from front to back.

Can you see the look on someones face who bought it when they plugged it into their system?

lol

 

[Alphazero]

Originally posted by: Whitedog
Don't erase. Just load them down with Porn from front to back.

Can you see the look on someones face who bought it when they plugged it into their system?

lol

There's an idea

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: bacillus
you can try this!

Yup DBAN is where data destruction is @

Thorin