What do I need to do to completely wipe out my hard drive?

Answer 1

Acetylene torch

Answer 2

Did you mean Erasing the hard disk? If that so you'll need a start up disk (floppy) which is for windows 98 it's the best start up disk for formatting.. just type:
c: format
and if you have extra logical partitions like d ,e , f just do the same to them but replace the letter according to the drive.. and finally if you wish to remove the drives just type
fdisk
and navigate through the options

Answer 3

Download Bootable ISO Image of Active@ KillDisk to burn CD ,And boot with the Burned Cd to erase the data on the Hard disk.

Here is the link to download the kill disk software.

http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

You can refer to the below power point presentation for the onscreen instructions.

http://www.killdisk.com/downloads/ActiveKillDisk.ppt

And Erase all the data on the Hard disk.

Answer 4

Boot to DOS.

at C: prompt, type

format c:

hit enter

Hard drive wiped!

Answer 5

1) Remove hard drive.

2) Drop in the garbage

3) Install new hard drive.

Answer 6

Write over it. Use Hard Disk Scrubber. Fdisk or formatting can't do what Hard Disk Scrubber does.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,110338,00.asp

Answer 7

you can do that in the BIOS (if it has the option to format hard drives)
or you can use a bootable cd...and from it format the hard drive

Answer 8

A strong magnet.

Answer 9

What whipe it clean? With no OS?

Just try and partition it

Answer 10

an easy way i like is to install it into another computer and delete everything then