How to completely wipe a hard drive?

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Vnet said:
if its a seagate use the DM Utility or the best way could be the fdisk format ... jus boot from a bootable win98 cd n delete all the partitions starting from the logical then the extended and then the primary... or yeah use the winxp cd that would be more easy as its a sort of user friendly...

Hope you aren't trying to hide anything (like privacy, porn, credit card numbers, etc). There are a number of freeware tools that will extract the data from a reformated, repartitioned, and damaged drives.
 
Did it work? I haven't had the "privilege" of cleaning a boot sector virus but I hear they can be really nasty.

Actually, yes, it did. But I had a hell of a time in the meantime cause I was trying to save info prior to wiping the drive and not knowing what was infected made it hard as HELL! I had to scan every single file I transfered off that computer before I wiped it clean. And I LOST some critical/irreplacable media such as family photos and genealogical stuff cause I couldn't save it on a cd or transfer it to my husband's computer. We didn't have a dvd burner at the time. Liz
 
I tryed useing the software that came with my maxtor... i gave up 30 min into it... and southernlady im guessing ill call ya liz :p make a back up of all your data like that atleast once in a while... i backup all my pics/vids/downloads and school work every 2 months... God that turns into a big mess when you dont organize the files....
 
That magnet...that's the cheapest....and requires no electricty
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA TO WHOEVER SUGGESTED IT.
 
charles_scott said:
I tryed useing the software that came with my maxtor... i gave up 30 min into it... and southernlady im guessing ill call ya liz :p make a back up of all your data like that atleast once in a while... i backup all my pics/vids/downloads and school work every 2 months... God that turns into a big mess when you dont organize the files....

Powermax is one of the utilities that come with Maxtor
 
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