Wiping a hard drive to sell on Ebay?

[TKHDebater]

I'm selling an old 45GB HD on Ebay, but I'd like to completely wipe it before I ship it. I searched the forums and found Dban recommended, however from what i could tell it wipes all hard drives? I don't want to wipe my new 250gb HD.... Any suggestions? Thanks

 

[Vegito]

is it windows based or dos based disk ?

if dos based, just unplug all your drive except for that one

 

[TKHDebater]

interesting.... good point. that might just work. thanks

 

[harobikes333]

Or this? I've got it on my computer, its free^^

its called eraser: http://www.download.com/Eraser/3000-2092_4-10231813.html?tag=lst-0-5

I've got an older version but it works^^🙂

 

[tomcas1]

Do a low level format using the utility available from the manufacturer of the hard drive.

 

[Jiggz]

Low level format will erase data also. Although you will probably have to do it at least twice. On other utilities this is called, "zero'ing".

 

[Markbnj]

There is a utility called BCWipe from Jetico that adheres to DoD and Fed specs for data wiping. You can target anything from individual files on up to entire drives, and I believe there is an eval version.

http://www.jetico.com/

 

[nweaver]

I think a regular format, followed by an FDISK and format is pleanty. ANd that's about half the time of a low level format.

 

[0roo0roo]

eraser+format

 

[alfa147x]

HAMMER!
*lol*formatting wont do it*

 

[Oyeve]

DBAN. Fdisking, formating, even going fat to ntfs and back will not wipe your data.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: nweaver
I think a regular format, followed by an FDISK and format is pleanty. ANd that's about half the time of a low level format.

Actually we were still able to retrieve data on a disk that had its partitioned removed then rebuilt and then on top of that formatted. I think a low level format times two would be a decent enough format to wipe all the data off of the drive.

 

[Churnd]

I've had good results with Darik's Boot and Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Churnd
I've had good results with Darik's Boot and Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Yup. Good old DBAN. Its settings range from single pass zero wipe, and I think it goes to that 35 pass Gutmann wipe pattern. Do that only if you've got a long time to spare. 🙂

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Churnd
I've had good results with Darik's Boot and Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Yup. Good old DBAN. Its settings range from single pass zero wipe, and I think it goes to that 35 pass Gutmann wipe pattern. Do that only if you've got a long time to spare. 🙂

I have a spare computer setup to plug drives into just for this reason...

"The Master Blaster" 😀

 

[Churnd]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow

I have a spare computer setup to plug drives into just for this reason...

"The Master Blaster" 😀

:laugh: :laugh:

 

[nippyjun]

Personally, i'd just destroy the drive rather than risk id theft or the like.

 

[meatfestival]

Last time I sold some hard disks, I just formatted the drives, filled them to capacity with junk files, formatted again and repeated maybe 2 or 3 times.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: TKHDebater
I'm selling an old 45GB HD on Ebay, but I'd like to completely wipe it before I ship it. I searched the forums and found Dban recommended, however from what i could tell it wipes all hard drives? I don't want to wipe my new 250gb HD.... Any suggestions? Thanks

45gb.. .15 gb platters. 3 platters.. anyone smell something? 75GXP? I had one of those =P. Please dont sell drives that already click with death =(