Program to Zero out data

[dsd17]

I'm looking for a program or possibly something that is already built into the OS that will allow me to zero out the data on my laptop hard drive. Does anyone know of anything that is bootable or that I can call from the DOS prompt that will allow me to accomplish this? Does Microsoft have a built-in tool that can do this for me?

 

[igowerf]

There were actually two other threads about this within the last two days, but both of the other threads have bad thread titles.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1854261&enterthread=y

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1854762&enterthread=y

 

[mechBgon]

Yeah, for that I'd just download the CD version of DBAN, burn it, boot from it, and pick one of the Department Of Defense methods.

 

[dsd17]

cool. thanks guys