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Program for erasing data off of hard drive

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wyvrn

Lifer
I want to clean my work computer completely since tomorrow is my last day, its a Win98 box. I want a permanent wipe of all data, but the catch is the box has only one hard drive. So I need a program that will work from a bootup floppy.
 
Write zero's to it using any HDD mfg's tool located on their website.
 
Depending on how badly you want the data gone, you can download a program like Eraser 5.3, delete everything non OS, and write random data to the drive X times over. Then just format the OS off ... that should make everything go away with almost zero chance of recovery.

For real peace of mind, just go to office max and buy a 10 gig, 5400RPM drive for ~$50, swap 'em, and walk out with your old drive. Then either toss it in the trash or put it in your home machine and use it for whatever.
 
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