software to wipe a hard drive securely

[sare^baw's]

im looking for a windows based program to wipe a hard drive clean and no data can be recovered, i have dban drive wipe but it runs in dos and takes ages so that would mean my pc is unusable while wiping the drives.

any suggestions

 

[sare^baw's]

It's not possible to use the hard drive, while wiping it clean (I think)... how you can you use something that's being deleted?

File Shredder can remove files so you can't recover them, though.

i thought there was programs that wipe the free space on your hard drive inc the system drive.

also i want to wipe seperate hard drives that had personal data on them at one time. so file shredder no good.

 

[sare^baw's]

Its not possible to totally erase anything off a hard drive unless you destroy it.

dban is probably the closest your going to get outside of smashing it up.

well put lol, ok guys thanks for the help ill mayber just have to stick to dban so no pc for me for a while