Clearing Out my Hard Drive

[filterxg]

So I intend to sell my laptop, but I've completely forgotten which are the programs that will "shred" my hard drive. I doubt it's the right term because I wasn't getting any hits on my searches, but what I mean is making it as difficult as possible to bring anything back after I format it. There is nothing sensetive on it, just don't want a potential buyer looking at my files.

Oh, its a NTFS, XP machine...if that's important.

Thanks in advance

 

[phillc]

You could format the hard drive and reinstall Windows. That would do it.

 

[filterxg]

No, what I'm looking for is something that basically keeps people from using recovery software. I remember using some product a few years ago that would write new data over the old one thereby making it very difficult to recover. But again I don't remember the name of the software, and at least that version was meant to delete files, not format a drive.

 

[squid413]

Norton Wipe Info should do what you want to do.

 

[Unforgiven]

Darik's Boot & Nuke

this program will completely nuke any information on the drive in a low level format.

 

[Aluf]

You may try Sdelete from Russinovich site www.sysinternals.com I never used it but reputation of Russinovich is very high in Windows world, so ..
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/sdelete.shtml

 

[xpoptical]

I would say go with sDELETE i used it its extremely good

 

[CyGho]

Sure Delete