Re: Erasing HD - really erasing it.

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:23:21 -0700, "Bob Johnson" <A@xxxxx> wrote:

I understand that formatting a hard drive does not necessarily erase all
previous data. I have heard that there are utilities that "truly" erase an
entire hard drive... overwriting existing data with "X" and doing so
multiple times.

My question:
Where can I get such a utility? What would I google? When I did a search all
I got was commercial expensive stuff that seems overkill. Are there any free
such utilities?

Thanks.



Just curious: What makes you think anyone would go to the trouble to
steal your drive and go to considerable trouble to retrieve (maybe)
the information on it?
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