2006-12-13 05:43:23 · 10 answers · asked by Clau 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
wave an electromagnet over all the drives. thatll wipe everything(even the OS) off of it.
2006-12-13 05:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by Kain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a program out there called DBAN (which stands for Derek's Boot And Nuke or something like that), it's what we use to erase hard drives at the local college when we are disposing of old computers and it completely gets rid of everything. If you want to be thorough, I would suggest looking that up (it will require that you make a bootable floppy). Once you have your floppy, just boot to the floppy drive and it's pretty self explanatory from there. Make sure you have everything you need before you use the program though because there's no getting it back.
2006-12-13 05:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Formatting alone won't do the trick. You'll feel much safer if you securely erase the disk - use something like Active@ KillDisk or Darik's Boot N Nuke, these programs overwrite the entire hard disk multiple times to ensure that no data can be recovered, sometimes to DoD standards.
2006-12-13 05:50:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Format the drives
2006-12-13 05:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by eug3n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Format the drive.
2006-12-13 05:49:58 · answer #5 · answered by Mark T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Format, or even better zero-fill, macs have some kinfa thing where it randonly fills the drive 8 times..
2006-12-13 05:45:59 · answer #6 · answered by RealG187 [a/k/a MPG] 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is the link for DBAN (as suggested by Jay...who gets my vote).
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
regards,
Philip T
2006-12-13 07:33:06 · answer #7 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Format the drive(s)
2006-12-13 05:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by iamrlk 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
on another computer install partition magic 8
plug HDD you wanna let go to this computer
( when it power is off )
after boot , run partition magic
choose "clean and safe erease partition" for each partition when
deleting partitions.
2006-12-13 05:53:51 · answer #9 · answered by GodFather 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best thing is to reformat and reinstall os.
2006-12-13 05:45:48 · answer #10 · answered by micaso1971 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋