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Whipe completely HD

I am wanting to whipe a hd as I will be giving it to someone else. Normally I would format but this doesn't delete eveything so Im told. Does anyone know of a good free program thats easy to use for whiping a hard drive to a clean state?

Deathrow

A would suspect a general user would not know how to retrieve things.

A Clean format should do it

Do the Slow one, As it will take longer time to delete each file and do a more effecient job.

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K3rupt

No, a full format scans for bad sectors which is why it takes longer. A quick format erases the files just as well as a full format.

You can use something like this http://www.fileshredder.org/ but virtually nothing makes a file completely unrecoverable if someone is willing to pay enough money to recover it.

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Cromewell

earth magnets will... lol but then you're hard drive is done

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cheburns

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Ahh, Never knew that.

Oh Well.

That FileShredder Looks good. I would suggest giving that a go

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K3rupt

It's a common mistake

People think that the extra time for a full format is because it is erasing the files better but it's not.

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Cromewell

Sorry, off-topic but the misspelling of "whipe" made me thing of this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wgOeBcFiZ5A

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PohTayToez

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It's a common mistake

People think that the extra time for a full format is because it is erasing the files better but it's not.

Well It good too know.

Thanks, So, how is the hard drive going?

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