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What is a good hard drive wiping software?
We have two older PCs we want to wipe and donate to a school program. I want to make dead sure that everything on them is erased, however. Can you recommend some good programs designed to irreversibly obliterate everything on a hard drive? I'm not talking about merely 1-pass erasure/reformat. I mean gone for good.
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Ok, what you need is Active Kill Disk.
That erases the whole hard drive, every single file.
I have used it before and it is a very good program, gon onlink for more details.
- Bassman1Lv 71 decade ago
This program writes over word files, data, pictures and any thing you want to shred, use the government/military and then delete all the files and they can not be recovered, the software program is not expensive and the name is Defender Pro File Wiper.
The only other way is to install a new operating system or remove and destroy the hard drive. If you have the Windows operating system Cd set just install a new version and it will write over the old Window and every thing and only a Expert and lost of time and money could recover any thing.
Hope this helps
- ?Lv 45 years ago
appears like a reasonably tight situation. Macs are not that straightforward as a million 2 3 to envision around in hardware. in my opinion your perfect guess is to take it to an Apple keep and clarify them the placement. Sorry.
- AlexLv 41 decade ago
Kill disk is very good. Wipes out everything and overwrites data so it can not be restored
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
dban (dirks boot and nuke) http://www.dban.org/
burn it to a disk and boot form it . Then type autonuke and watch the data get well ... nuked.