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Old 20-September-03, 07:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Arrow clearing hard drive

isnt there some way to clear hard drives just more then a reformat so that the files cant be recovered to, like writing 0's to it or something, im not sure but i want to sell a hard drive on ebay, any of you guys no?
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Old 20-September-03, 08:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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yes there is...there are programs that you can purchase that do that for you.

I use a program we called God DisK...it does a government wipe and is damn quick! It can reformat and partition a 100 gig hard drive in under a min from the time you press the number.
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Old 20-September-03, 09:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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theres a prog called system mechanic works pretty good...
also has a few system tools in it.

http://www.iolo.com/sm/download.cfm
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Old 21-September-03, 05:17 AM   #4 (permalink)
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There's also BCWipe ... not fast, but free.
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Old 21-September-03, 09:46 AM   #5 (permalink)
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thx!
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