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Erasure Tool
Does anyone know of tool (preferably free) that will erase everything from your harddrive. Including OS, data, etc. Its time for a free format. Thanks for any info and or help. Thanks
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Sure, make a boot disk, pop it in, then
\format c: :p |
Both Maxtor and WD have Data Diagnostic tools that can write 1's & 0's to your drives, essentially do a real "Format" that makes it almost 100% clean.
That is truely the only way, but I'm sure ther are other software items out there that can do it a bit more precisly rahter the entire drive. |
I am actually trying to reformat a Maxtor drive. Destrox, would you happen to know where to find those tools. Would it came bundled with the drive or could I download it someplace? Thanks
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This is the software that comes with new HDD's.
It has erasing, formating, and partitioning functions. http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/dow.../maxblast3.htm |
Unfortunately, Maxblast won't work. I wiped out the CD that came with my drive, installed it but MaxBlast won't let you select the primary (C:) drive to alter or change. Unless, I can find something else I will try mikec's suggestion.
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You have to boot to the CD in order to format the C:/ drive;)
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format c: does nothing to erase a drive, he(she) wants to wipe it clean removing everything off of it, not just one pass he(she) wants it DEAD.
which means multiple passes with random data writen to it. |
personally I'd use partitionmagic to delete and secure erase, but for a free prog I've tested boot & nuke and it worked on the drive I tried it on..
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Well, its over and done with. Thanks everyone for your help. I used Mikecs first suggestion (see above). It worked well (even though it took 5 hours. It was a 160 GB drive). Thus, far the driver conflicts with my new 9800 Pro haven't surfaced so I am happy but time will tell. Again, thanks everyone for your help and suggestions.
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cool, glad it worked out for ya! yeah it can take a while, but you can guar-on-tee that whatever data is on there is totally unrecoverable. nice!!
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