Can anyone recommend Free hard drive wipe for XP

[tmdcedar]

I am looking for free software to wipe clean my external hard drive on XP. I need to clear space for new backups.

 

[inzone]

If your keeping the drive and not selling it then you can just format the drive.
The top rated free secure erase software is;

http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php

There is also this one;

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

 

[jay_nar2012]

Writing 0s to the drive is probably the best thing and is usually the easiest using this-
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=3&lang=en

 

[tmdcedar]

Best answer selected by tmdcedar.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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