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How To Completely Erase A Hard Drive Making The Data Impossible To Recover? |
I have a gang of hard drives and external hard drives that I no longer need and would like to traffic in on ebay. Before I do this I want to make sure the drives are completely erased. I recall I can format it but I heard you can still recover data from a drive that has been formatted. Is their a way that I can completely erase a drive making it unworkable to recover any data from it.
Thanks
| Answer: eraser it works and it's open. you need to use at least 7 passes for secure deletion and 35 if your really worried. it also on with a nuke boot to wipe everything. http://www.heidi.ie/node/6 |
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