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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).

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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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