USB Bootable tools lowlevel format,

[Stufish]

Hi All,

I have been searching the forum for about 30-mins and there are so many posts it's eye-watering.

I'm looking for a USB bootable set of tools that will let me wipe both windows and mac.

Any suggestions? I don't mind paying up to £10.

Thanks

 

[Stufish]

Ultimate Boot CD which you can run from a USB stick. Seems like it works for Macs too but check it out.

thank you I will

 

[Stufish]

Just FYI, modern hard drives and SSDs don't need to be low level formatted and attempting to do so will more then likely make the drive unusable.

Depending on if you just want to delete the partitions or just make it impossible to recover any data, Gparted will be good enough for the former but if you want to zero out the whole drive it's going to be more complex since while DBAN is the more known way to wipe drives, it's only good for hard drives as solid state drives will require a different set of tools to secure erase them which from looking at the as the list of disk wiping tools included with ultimate boot CD it does include tools for wiping SSDs (although on the standard PC side of things some motherboards might have the ability to secure erase SSDs in their BIOS, but I'm not 100% sure about that since I haven't gotten hands on with more current motherboards).

Thanks. Gparted worked well for one of the things I wanted to do.