wiping hard drive to return it

Have 1 year old hard drive on it's way out and want to wipe all my personal data off it before I send it back - am looking for something a bit more substantial than a reformat and I think I seen an app on here before that would do the job but can't remember what it was.

Any ideas?

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Thats the one - cheers nibbs

No problem fuckers!!

try a magnet mate lol thats sure to get rid of all that porn prezzy

try a magnet mate lol thats sure to get rid of all that porn prezzy

lol this is for my main pc hard drive - no porn on there all that is on my qnap so I can access it anywhere

try a magnet mate lol thats sure to get rid of all that porn prezzy

I doubt many people have a magnet powerful enough in a house to actually do much good... software is the way to go lol

Normally I would use dban but i remember once at work recently, one of the directors made a big thing about securely destroying his old laptop hard drive even though I was only replacing it cos it was totally dead. I took the platters out and shattered them in front of his face

Normally I would use dban but i remember once at work recently, one of the directors made a big thing about securely destroying his old laptop hard drive. I took the platters out and shattered them in front of his face

Aye, good way to do the job. I normally punch a screw driver straight through the case thus shattering the platters too.

I doubt many people have a magnet powerful enough in a house to actually do much good... software is the way to go lol

I would say hi-fi speakers are powerful enough, i know this because i accidentally left a hard drive on some speakers once, and it totally wiped my drive

CCleaner as always does a good job and the data is untraceable

This is what i need to do so thank you

So does this software render the hard drive useless or can it be re-used once wiped ?

prezzy u know anyone with a mac???

The drive is re-usable it just overwrites the whole drive a few times meaning you cant recover any data as its been overwritten multiple times.

Another one I use is Killdisk ....
but the free version only does 1 write so you have to run it a few times to be safe ;-)