pc running win xp home needs hard drive wiped CLEAN ! ! ! ! !

[minime66]

I have a Pc running win xp home and need to have the hard drive wiped CLEAN, I have removed the primary partition and created a new partition then formatted the drive afterwards.

I thought about running debug or something along that level of getting the hard drive wiped CLEAN!!!!!!

Can Debug be ran on a hard drive using the NTFS file system?

any suggestions would be helpful, thanks

 

[biglebowski]

how clean do you want it. Format deletes all the data on the disk but doesn't remove it. Defrag will realign fragmented files but does not clean/delete/format.

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

 

[Enkrypted]

You pretty much wiped it clean yourself. By deleting the partition and reformatting, the drive is clean.

Anotehr option to ensure that the drive is clean is to go to the drive manufacturers' website and download the disk drive utility, which will come with a program that will write zero's to the drive, in turn, low-level formatting the drive.

If you still wanna make sure it's clean, you always have the option of cracking the drive oen and cleaning it with some windex and a lint free cloth (this last paragraph is a joke, don't take it seriously...lol)

Enkrypted
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[cdogg]

You can use a wipe utility. BC Wipe, Cyberscrub, or Evidence Eliminator are some popular examples.

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[kmcferrin]

Right. There was a utility that I used to use called "Boot and Nuke". You can download it from the Internet for free. Basically you make a bootable CD, then when you boot from it B&N will wipe your hard disk, overwriting all of the sectors with zeroes, then ones, then zeroes, etc. I can't recall how many passes it makes, but it does meet US DOD requirements for removing data from a disk drive.