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Wiping a Hard Drive completely

  • 14-10-2005 10:27am
    #1
    kat9182
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    How can I completely wipe my hard drive of everything on it including OS???


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  • #2
    srdb20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭srdb20


    Try PGP or eraser!


    Both very good...............

    Happy Days.

    Not sure if they'll work without the os you may need a DOS version / Programme or something
    Boot into DOS and do it from there.

    Failing that wipe the harddrive clean a few times with PGP or ERASER. Then once your happy enought that your data wont be recoverd...........FORMAT the drive!!!


  • #3
    kas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭kas


    DBAN boot and Nuke.
    Free, bootable, open source, easy to use.

    http://dban.sourceforge.net/


  • #4
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    You'll need to do this with the hard drive plugged into another computer as a secondary drive - or alternatively you could use a boot disk with an erasing program. Ultimate Boot CD might include an erasing program, there are surely others (with a smaller download.) Let me know if you need more help.

    EDIT: What kas said, above.


  • #5
    srdb20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭srdb20


    OOOPs i forgot about that!

    That should do the lot for you.


  • #6
    themole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    brick, or other weapon of choice :D


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