I want to give away some old hard drives i have laying around but i want to scrub them clean first. I have one windows xp machine with a open EIDE slot to put another hard drive there. I don't want to affect my windows xp hard drive at all. I have a couple of drives with windows 98 an those are the ones i want to delete everything off of completely like DoD so people cannot recover my tax info etc. Is there a program i can use that I can select the individual drive to scrub clean? Also my hard drive in my xp machine is partitioned is there any way i can make a recovery disk to de partion and scrub that drive and put xp back on it? please help thanks.
2007-02-11 13:25:39 · 3 answers · asked by audiovolt 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Phiilp how would i go about that would i just plug the hard drive with the windows 98 into my open IEDE slot on my xp machine?
2007-02-11 14:04:13 · update #1
I suggest you use either of these free tools... they come with instructions :
Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN)
secure hard drive erasure
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dban.html...
OR
Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes.
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
As for creating a recovery disk ... no, but Partition Logic will allow you to delete the other partitions & add the space to the partition with XP on it.. XP will not be deleted unless you want to.
regards,
Philip T
2007-02-11 13:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No need for programs to do it. Plug hardrives that you want to erase info on. Right click on my computer. click manage. On the left hand side of the window click disk fragmentation. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SELECTED THE RIGHT HARD DRIVE . FILES DELETED IN THIS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE RETRIEVED. Good luck. any question on this email me Lordode14@yahoo.com
2007-02-11 22:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No hard drive can be completley erased, unless you take a magnet to the platters, but then it's useless.
I use a program called "Get Data Back" to recover lost data from corrupt, deleted or formatted hard drives.
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I did notice on another post, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai.ScS27CroaXK5ahKup__hOxgt.?qid=20070215135353AAc12NI
You reference peak wattage for subs. Why? Peak watts are meaningless in car audio.
How long have you been installing?
2007-02-15 20:03:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋