mj

I have a hard disk that needs to go back into a computer and I need it totally wiping as it came out of my gran's old machine, and has quite alot of personal stuff on.

I have a USB caddy, will a few formats do it or is there something better available?. The only reason I ask is that the computer is going to an "uncle" who will install an OS himself, apparently he is a bit of a whizz with the old puters, he is also a grade A1 ar$ehole, so I'd rather him not be able to recover anything.

Thanks in advance,

mike.

Mr.Cookie

delete everything then write loads of crap too it then delete that can't recover it, if it's not there

Si

mj

ok, so I do a format, the disk is only about 2.5 G.

Then I fill it to capacity with say mpegs or so then format again?

just need 2.5 G of clean MPEG's now

cheers,

mike.

Mr.Cookie

there is also a program called evidence eliminator iirc personally rather trust my theory

Si

StickyMicky

i think norton utillities can do a goverment spec format (about 8 times or sumthing like that??)

rogp

www.killdisk.com - the free version fits on a floppy and does ones pass of zeros, which is more than enough to prevent anyone other than the professional data recovery firms or the intelligence services from recovering anything.

I certainly trust it

Roger

[Edited by rogp - 1/17/2004 5:41:46 PM]

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

there is a trial version of "east-tec eraser" and it wipes everything so it can never be found got a copy on my pc

just read above reply and this software stops even them from recovering the data

[Edited by stevebt - 1/17/2004 10:24:30 PM]