Re: cleaning harddrive

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John Barnett MVP wrote:
If you want to clean the drive completely, that is remove everything that is
on the drive, then reformatting would be necessary.
There is software available that will security wipe your hard drive, this is
especially useful if you are passing on your machine to someone else.
However, the better ones are not free.

DBAN (dericks boot and nuke) actually IS one of the better ones. It
handles multiple hard drives simutlaneously. We've gotten it to do up
to 16 at once. IT will handle most hard drive controllers. Easy to use.
Create a floppy boot with it. Type autonuke to nuke everything (by
default the 3 Pass DoD short method, or gou can select from a number of
options, tepending on time constraints and security desired) or press
enter for a more selective nuking menu. It's weakness is that it won't
do zips, floppies, tapes or CDs. If you have a marginal HDD with bad
sectors or an iffy controller board, it will try anyway.

http://dban.sourceforge.net/


I'm not sure whether it is still
available but i still use Ontrack data eraser professional for security
erasing my hard drives. You should be prepared for a long wait though when
security erasing. The size of hard drives today mean that it could take
hours or days to completely security erase a hard drive.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org

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"Fido" <Fido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:81ED63E2-00F1-4581-81F4-EC81326C383B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Based on your question, i would have to reply ALL files and ALL
directories
need to be shredded in order to clean your harddrive. Easier way would be
to
format it.

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