How to Wipe a Hard drive?

[Raxbar]

Hi, so today a friend of mine broke an older desktop and gave me the hard drive. I want to use the hard drive as a backup drive to the hard drive I already own. How do I wipe it? And how do set it to backup my already existing hard drive?

 

[JeauxBleaux]

Go to http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.13-HDD-Wipe-Tool/

Download, install, run. Choose the drive to "wipe" carefully, there is no data recovery option afterward.

For the backup, there are tons of options, you might try this -> http://www.todo-backup.com/

 

[Raxbar]

Best answer selected by Raxbar.