Best program for formatting?

Phoenix211 · 4 Apr 2006 at 21:43

Im selling a few hard drives next week and I was wondering, whats the best program to format them? I mean totally as I understand Windows format leaves a trace or something of the data?

Cyber-Mav · 4 Apr 2006 at 21:45

format c:

nyzrox · 4 Apr 2006 at 21:46

i would have just thought pop in ** pc, partition and format in the disk management... ive not known it to leave traces, and why not just sell the with no partitions defind...

JayMax · 4 Apr 2006 at 22:48

Try a wiping program, I use Dariks Boot and Nuke (it's freeware).
It does American DoD, RMCP and even higher level random seed wiping profiles, like Fast PRNG (Mersenne Twister).
I know there are other progs out there that people will recommend but DBan has sufficed my needs and is very easy to use. I've used it at work on decommissioned machines.

smids · 4 Apr 2006 at 22:58

It's true, windows formatted drives can actually be recovered. You'll want something like KillDisk or the suggestion from above. Make sure you boot and nuke/killdisk the right drive though!

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Phoenix211 · 5 Apr 2006 at 04:20

JayMax said:
Try a wiping program, I use Dariks Boot and Nuke (it's freeware).
It does American DoD, RMCP and even higher level random seed wiping profiles, like Fast PRNG (Mersenne Twister).
I know there are other progs out there that people will recommend but DBan has sufficed my needs and is very easy to use. I've used it at work on decommissioned machines.

cheers bud, used dban. Took 3 1/2 hours to do 2 80gb drives :eek: