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Any user friendly Hard Drive erase utilities?
knave:
I've used Dban in the past and it works fine but, I need to find a hard drive erace utility that is easy to use for a non techie. Ie...boot the CD and press "erase"...ok I'll never find one that easy but I'd settle for almost easy. Dban is very linuxy (heh I made up a word) and will scare people.
Please help.
Thanks.
ahofle:
Sorry to piggyback onto your request, but I am also looking for something similar, except that it completely wipes the free space on your disk (ie really deletes deleted files so they cannot be recovered).
EwJ:
I find Eraser to be useful for wiping free space, 'shredding' files and it also will create a dban floppy for you.
The dban disk it creates seems very strightforward and easy to use - simple boot up with it, and enter 'autonuke' at the prompt.
The defaults should be adequate for most situations.
edit: add linky
quarterback:
--- Quote from: ahofle on February 28, 2008, 07:14:10 pm ---Sorry to piggyback onto your request, but I am also looking for something similar, except that it completely wipes the free space on your disk (ie really deletes deleted files so they cannot be recovered).
--- End quote ---
Use something like this: http://david.tribble.com/text/filldisk.html
It's a batch file that will basically just fill your drive with random data, rewriting every block where your files used to be. batch file, doesn't get much easier than that.
leapinlew:
on the Ultimate Boot CD - there are several utilities. Download it here: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
I mainly use KILLDISK.
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