Removing all data from a hardrive?

[Deluxe1]

Im selling a couple of hardrives soon,ive formatted them both but i`d like to make sure there is no retrievable data left on them before selling if thats possible.

Are there any programs out there than can do this for me?

 

[PieMaster]

Boot and Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

[jbloggs]

Boot and Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

This will certainly do the business for you !

 

[mosfet]

Boot and Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Another vote for Boot and Nuke. Have used it before several times when selling drives.

 

[Deluxe1]

Just used it but not sure if it worked or not? This is the what it came up with:

 

[IAmATeaf]

I use a util called KillDisk, do a search, create a boot floppy and away you go, the free version only allow 1 pattern to be written to the disk but doing this twice should make the data unrecoverable as it writes this pattern to the entire disk.

 

[Deluxe1]

I found a program called "O&O Safe Erase",seems to of done the job altho it did take 5 hours for a 80GB drive.

 

[hohum]

Just used it but not sure if it worked or not? This is the what it came up with:

That error message is caused either by a hard drive with bad sectors (as it says), or in my case a while back due to faulty RAM. Try doing one hard disk at a time, see if you can find a culprit that way.

 

[Aelred89]

I use a util called KillDisk, do a search, create a boot floppy and away you go, the free version only allow 1 pattern to be written to the disk but doing this twice should make the data unrecoverable as it writes this pattern to the entire disk.

That's what I use... seems to do the job well enough