Need Software to Wipe Hard Drive Clean

XpGuy1 · October 20th, 2006

Is there any software out there that will wipe a hard drive completly clean? if so what is it?

thanks for your help.

**American Zombie** · October 20th, 2006

Killdisk will do the job and your drive manufacturers site will have software to do this as well.

XpGuy1 · October 20th, 2006

Is that a complete cleaning where old data can't be seen again?

**lancer** · October 20th, 2006

correct, it writes binary code to the hard drive, so when the fbi knocks down your door they wont be able to find anything.

But it takes a while, likes hours, so i hope they aren't outside right now. cause your sol.

XpGuy1 · October 20th, 2006

LMAO.. hahahah.. nooooo thats not the problem. i want to give away some old HD's but didn't want to give them out if some of my more sensitive data could be restored.. Passwords. banking stuff..

that was funny though.

**lancer** · October 20th, 2006

**madmatt** · October 20th, 2006

Thread moved/renamed.

Please be more specific with your thread titles.

Drexler · February 16th, 2010

If you are trying to overwrite areas with out wiping out the entire drive, there is other software. If you use the text file method you need to check out the end of the file with a raw hex editor that can look past the EOF character in the file. I've seen data in sectors past the end of the EOF mark that was the original data on the disk. Magic Backup

**dreamliner77** · February 16th, 2010

DBAN

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing

**gonaads** · February 17th, 2010

Holy thread resurrection Batman.

**dreamliner77** · February 18th, 2010

Heh, I didn't even look at the dates.

October 20th, 2006	Top \| #1
XpGuy1 Mindless Poster Joined: October 2002 Posts: 136 Reputation: 0 Power: 115	Need Software to Wipe Hard Drive Clean Is there any software out there that will wipe a hard drive completly clean? if so what is it? thanks for your help. Thats to much power for one man to have...

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American Zombie OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: June 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 2,849 Reputation: 2689 Power: 148	Re: Hard Drive Killdisk will do the job and your drive manufacturers site will have software to do this as well.

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XpGuy1 Mindless Poster Joined: October 2002 Posts: 136 Reputation: 0 Power: 115	Re: Hard Drive Is that a complete cleaning where old data can't be seen again? Thats to much power for one man to have...

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lancer There is no answer! Joined: October 2004 Location: FL, USA Posts: 3,087 Blog Entries: 3 Reputation: 1430 Power: 134	Re: Hard Drive correct, it writes binary code to the hard drive, so when the fbi knocks down your door they wont be able to find anything. But it takes a while, likes hours, so i hope they aren't outside right now. cause your sol. "The world has just got smaller now, but people have got further away."

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XpGuy1 Mindless Poster Joined: October 2002 Posts: 136 Reputation: 0 Power: 115	Re: Hard Drive LMAO.. hahahah.. nooooo thats not the problem. i want to give away some old HD's but didn't want to give them out if some of my more sensitive data could be restored.. Passwords. banking stuff.. that was funny though. Thats to much power for one man to have...

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lancer There is no answer! Joined: October 2004 Location: FL, USA Posts: 3,087 Blog Entries: 3 Reputation: 1430 Power: 134	Re: Hard Drive "The world has just got smaller now, but people have got further away."

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Drexler OSNN One Post Wonder Joined: February 2010 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: Need Software to Wipe Hard Drive Clean If you are trying to overwrite areas with out wiping out the entire drive, there is other software. If you use the text file method you need to check out the end of the file with a raw hex editor that can look past the EOF character in the file. I've seen data in sectors past the end of the EOF mark that was the original data on the disk. Magic Backup

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dreamliner77 The Analog Kid Joined: March 2002 Location: Red Sox Nation Posts: 4,638 Reputation: 1111 Power: 178	Re: Need Software to Wipe Hard Drive Clean DBAN Darik's Boot And Nuke \| Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." -Neil Peart of RUSH

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gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 345	Re: Need Software to Wipe Hard Drive Clean Holy thread resurrection Batman. *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

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dreamliner77 The Analog Kid Joined: March 2002 Location: Red Sox Nation Posts: 4,638 Reputation: 1111 Power: 178	Re: Need Software to Wipe Hard Drive Clean Heh, I didn't even look at the dates. "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." -Neil Peart of RUSH

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