Hard Disk Wipe program?

mrk

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Anyone know of a free good one? I am selling one of my backup disks no longer needed so need to make sure data is gone :)

Is there anything for 64bit in particular as I would assume that it would perform faster ?

Cheers!
 
what did you settle on?

i'm selling some hard drives soon and need to do this myself (first time ever)
 
yeah, but it takes an age

i just want something that's a bit better than a format, i don't have anything to 'hide' as such, i'd like to use the pc as it's doing it to the other drives
 
Hi,

I settled on a non DOS solution as I did not want to have to move my case, open it all up and disconnect the internal drives just to do this so I settled on this:

http://summitcn.com/download2.htm > Download File
Hard Disk Scrubber v2.1

It looks pretty simple but does a pretty thorough job. I ran a data recovery program after a "heavy scrub" followed by a normal scrub and could not detect any of my data to recover, only the scrubber data.

The heavy scrub took pretty much a whole day whilst the normal one takes 10ish hours.

Good tool :)
 
it's my two raptors i'm doing, hopefully that'll speed things up a bit (being 74gb each, and doing both at the same time :) )
 
Recuva is good to test with, I'm currently doing a thorough recover scan and so far it's not found any of my files too (just to be safe!)
 
These guys claim that their utility reaches areas that dban can't.

I fired up a disk editor and noticed that HDDErase leaves random junk on some hard drives after a wipe, so I rinse with dd after. Overkill, I know. :o

Code: 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=32768
 
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