Comp formatting

[Delusion2001]

i need a program taht will COMPLETELY wipe out ALL info on my hard drive beyond repair (so it can't be brought bakc no matter what)

anyone have any links?

Thanks

 

[compuwiz1]

Norton comes with wipe. Don't know how good it is, but there is a government setting which is more intense and take much longer. I could not rocover anything from it, using a relative's copy of lost and found.

 

[TonyG]

What is so important on your hard drive, that you must do such a format?



I don't know much about it, but would doing a low-level format work?

 

[Delusion2001]

does norton systemworks 2001 for win2k have this? i can't seem to find it

 

[compuwiz1]

Hey, I do it when I sell a used hard drive, as I don't want people recovering my stuff.

System works should. Norton Utilities 4.5 has it.

 

[Delusion2001]

<< What is so important on your hard drive, that you must do such a format? >>



i'm selling my hard drive...

 

[TonyG]

I guess that make sense

 

[Squisher]

I can't confirm this but I would think one of these diag programs for hard drives that write and read to every cluster would probably do the same thing.

 

[Tripleshot]

Norton has a diskedit and it allows you to write 0's a sector at a time.I have done it to recover a disk that had bad boot sectors. Norton Systemworks 2001 pro has it.

 

[pastee]

You might be able to find it on the internet under 'DOD Wipe Delete Format'

 

[timmyG]

evidenceeliminator.com

they made a program that has that function plus more. ive never used the hard drive wipe, but it looks pretty good. free 30 day trial i think.