Hard drive cleaning tools

[jagzc]

HEy all

I am just about to sell one on my external Hard drive and i was wonmdering is there some kinda of app that will clean it so files cant be restored ?

thanks for any help given

 

[Guest]

DBAN Boot & Nuke

 

[verbalizer]

windows can do that..

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.dban.org/

Windows is not quite DBAN!Grumpy would agree!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

When i pass on or sell a computer i nuke it with DBAN IT IS AWESOME!

 

[verbalizer]

no it's not but I'm just saying a slow format can get you by..

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You can recover files more easily when done with just windows compared to DBAN!

 

[verbalizer]

i know..

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

malmental give it a try some time it really works well!

 

[verbalizer]

if I had valuable data.....

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

The only real way is to bury the hard drive!lol

 

[khubani]

who is the manufacturer of the external hd?

 

[asheesh1_2000]

search for shreders on the google.

Simply deleting or shift deleting will not help. Even if you break your harddrive in pieces , it is recoverable.

The way these shreders works is they will write some garbage data on the entire drive and then delete it and then rewrite it and delete it. A good shreder does it for some 15 - 20 times , which makes original data virtually impossible to recover.

Lost of antiviruses have inbuilt shreders too.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.dban.org/

the best!

 

[Alanmoore]

HEy all

I am just about to sell one on my external Hard drive and i was wonmdering is there some kinda of app that will clean it so files cant be restored ?

thanks for any help given

I have always run a weekly cleanup with CCleaner software.All you need is the built in defrag, check disk and disk cleaner.