Wiping a harddrive CLEAN

[jimi]

Hey, I'm selling a Sony VGC-LM1E All-in-One Desktop on ebay and its coming to an end, but there a problem.

I have lost the BIOS disks to reset it to factory defaults and I need to reset my HDD. As I dont want anyone accessing my infomation etc.. :(


Any help here?

Jimi

[Kieran]

Get yourself a free program that erases your hard drive properly. As in puts 0's and 1's over everything.

[Johno]

Darik's Boot and Nuke would work from what I know :) http://www.dban.org/

[Markeh]

The only 100% sure-fire way to do it is a quite simple method.

http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/stop-hammer-time.jpg

To be truthful, you can use disk-wiping methods listed above, but this is the only way that your data could be unrecoverable by the buyer.

[Kieran]

As long as you put 0's and 1's over everything you're fine... However, it will take a few days if its of any considerable size!

[Agnostic Bear]

dban zero fill hdd

no hdd recovery company will touch it

[Recursion]

You'll never truly manage to destroy the data, you'd have to shread it, melt the metal and spread it to the four corners of the earth to make sure it was all gone.

DBAN as suggested above on a 7-pass 0 fill will work well enough though.