Dell has sent me new hard drive to replace the one I have. I will reformat it before I send it back but is there a way to completly erase so that the info is nonrecoverable. Any freeware that will do this.
Thanks
JAck
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Dell has sent me new hard drive to replace the one I have. I will reformat it before I send it back but is there a way to completly erase so that the info is nonrecoverable. Any freeware that will do this.
Thanks
JAck
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That link should state DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke).
It support both vista and xp.
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/clndisk.html