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Best software for zeroing out harddrive?

by mattewan Jun 26, 2007 4:07AM PDT

Are any of them free?

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I Use Two Different Ones..

by Grif Thomas Former Forum moderator Jun 26, 2007 4:23AM PDT

..depending on the type of computer and whether it has a floppy driver or not..

DBan
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
(On dual core processors, I've found the older Dban 1.0.6 actually works faster than the new version at the link above.)

Killdisk
http://www.killdisk.com/
Both are free.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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software for zeroing out harddrive

by mattewan Jun 26, 2007 11:15PM PDT

Thanks a lot. Those (or one of those) should do the trick.

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