Wanting to sell on old HDDs, best way to erase?

RobHague · 15 Feb 2014 at 21:45

I have a small pile of 500GB hard drives, fully working just taken out of old PCs. Thing is they are just collecting dust and I would like to sell them on to continue their life but I am concerned of data recovery. Selling on something like eBay, you never know, some dubious person with a tool and a bit of time may try their luck on getting back some of the data back.

So I need some way to ensure that cant happen. Any ideas?

darael · 15 Feb 2014 at 22:16

Something like CCleaner to wipe the free space?

Terrier_Jimlad · 16 Feb 2014 at 00:10

KillDisk

boosfuk · 16 Feb 2014 at 09:14

Another good one is Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)

mraerosmith1981 · 16 Feb 2014 at 10:15

boosfuk said:
Another good one is Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)

this for sure

KIA · 16 Feb 2014 at 17:42

DBAN 1 pass of zeroes or KillDisk if you want to do it from within Windows.

wazza300 · 16 Feb 2014 at 17:47

write over the entire disk with data,huge game files ect repeated till it fills the drive

data that has been overwritten on a magnetic platter has never been recovered. By anyone. Ever

RobHague · 16 Feb 2014 at 20:08

Thanks I will try dban/killdisk.