net_user Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I'm lookin for a good hard drive eraser to format hardrives...i'm not talkin about using fdisk, or disk management to delete the partions and create..ect....a utility that wrights 1's and 0's on the sectors to destroy data.i found a utility at www.killdisk.comit works pretty good....but lookin around....what do you all use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Eraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankE9999 Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Eraser works good if you want to erase the blank space, slack space or specific files. To wipe the complete drive try Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlo555 Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 DiskEraser. It's proven to be very effective, though I think I did it too many times on my maxtor 60gig, because it doesn't really work that well anymore. As for the program, it runs pretty well, just boot from the floppy, and choose if you want single pass, tripple pass, or like 8 pass, or manual configuration (0-99 passes.) It takes a very long time, though. If you do over 3 passes, it'll most likely take over 20 hours + data verification. I don't remember what company produced the application, but you could probably just google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net_user Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 though I think I did it too many times on my maxtor 60gig, because it doesn't really work that well anymore.i wonder if you "erase" the disk to many times, will it cause it's performance to degrade?not talkin about formating...but sector by sector data eraseing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlo555 Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 In my experience, yeah, it will degrade the performance. I did this several times with a maxtor 60gig and another maxtor 120gig. The 60gig doesn't really work that well, (just really slow) and the 120gig still runs pretty well. I think that when the program is erasing the disk it pushes the whole hard drive to its limits and possibly wears out the motor somehow, because it keeps the program keeps going for at least 12 hours (for a tripple pass, 60gb.) The bigger the drive, the longer it takes in my experience, but it works. When I installed windows on the drive after the erase, windows detected it as a new hard drive in setup or said that I erased it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
army20 Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 take a magnet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 System Mechanic has a Drive Scrubber.....works good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DL. Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 (edited) Any utility with the ability to do a low-level format will probably do just fine.There are a number of such utilities on the Ultimate Boot CD (free). Edited October 28, 2005 by DL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChunkDog Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I've been using this for a while now, and it's been awsome so far, and it's free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Dont use a magnet. It will ruin the HD. Please dont suggest things such as this, someone will ruin HD because they will think its good info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net_user Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 Dont use a magnet. It will ruin the HD. Please dont suggest things such as this, someone will ruin HD because they will think its good info.no kiddin...i'm not talking about "DESTROYING" the hard drive here...loljust to wipe the data off...and reuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
At0mic Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I find this always works for destroying data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 OK just find a utility to use there are many out there. Remember if you use one within windows it wont clean your page files and boot sectors. The ones which you boot off of will clean everything, but it takes a long time.If you have a resident virus to get rid of, after you write HD back to 0's usplug memory for about 30 seconds or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 I'd recommend Active@KillDisk (http://www.killdisk.com), but googling "DOD Wipe" will find you lots of tools that may meet your requirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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