[DarkstarX10a]

Anyone suggest a program, i can download to clean up the hard drive? Reformatting my drive soon, wanna make sure its as clean as it could possibly be.

 

[ACHILEE5]

CCleaner

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

You can get it to wipe free space!

And choose "how many overwrites"

And what drives

 

[error10]

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

 

[the_beast]

Unless you are selling the drive and are worried that people will find out your bank details or discover your addiction to bizzare pornograhy there is no benefit to any of the above.

Just re-format your disk (a quick format and full format do the same job here - a full format just checks the drive for errors, so is worthwhile if you have time). The end rsult is the same - you just avoid a lengthly process hammering your disks for no benefit.

 

[mtbiker033]

D-ban for sure, Darik's boot and nuke:

http://www.dban.org/

 

[DarkstarX10a]

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_beast Unless you are selling the drive and are worried that people will find out your bank details or discover your addiction to bizzare pornograhy there is no benefit to any of the above. Just re-format your disk (a quick format and full format do the same job here - a full format just checks the drive for errors, so is worthwhile if you have time). The end rsult is the same - you just avoid a lengthly process hammering your disks for no benefit.

Just paranoid I guess, just wanna make sure they are clean. And yes im considering selling my raptors, have em in RAID 0 so I want to make sure these programs are compatable in an enterprise environment. Since my work is cutting on costs so any time we call tech support they make a big deal about it, so I got double duty as on the spot guy. And my work does have some sensitive information such as client info and account numbers. Wanna make sure im doing my job right. Finally I dont want the other party to have any nasty surprises. LOL