How do you completely erase a hardrive?

I know it can be done, though I can't find any tools to do so. I heard "eraser" could get the job done, but I can't find it.

I want more then a reformat, something that also writes over your data(a number of times) with meaningless data.


thanks

Try AutoClave, i love it. ;)



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Here's a thread i did on it. -->AutoClave

Here's a link for eraser. http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/

A really big magnet'll do it.

br_fusion,

The best thing you can do is going to your hard drive manufacturer's website. There you will surely find an exclusive tool for your hard drive (every hard drive has a tool) with a lot of functions to use, including restore your hard drive to "factory state", erase, format, re-format, partition, etc., etc., etc.

Here's a list of hard drive manufacturer's websites:


HARD DISK TOOLS:

- WESTERN DIGITAL: HERE

- MAXTOR: HERE

- SEAGATE: HERE

- SAMSUNG: HERE

- FUJITSU: HERE

- HITACHI: HERE

- TOSHIBA: HERE

- IBM: HERE (supported now by Hitachi)

- QUANTUM: HERE (supported now by Maxtor)


CONFIGURATIONS:

- OLD HARD DISKS: HERE


Good luck,

DKRR