Topic: Selling on a used Hard Drive ?

[Tony]

Then you may want to clean the drive of all your personal data, of course I believe the "powers that be" can retrieve supposibly destroyed data. If its that bad, then may I suggest dropping the offending drive in the "Beaufort Dyke"

But that said, to stop "Joe Blogs " using retrieval software on the drive and getting your sensitive data off it, then this FREE program looks OK. As it has several wipe "options" depending how much time you want to spend "scrubbing" the Drive in question.

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

Considering the time it can take, I believe it must be a more secure method than using individual hard drive manufacturer's zero write utilities

[Simon]

Unfortunately that link seems to be down at the moment, Tony, but if it's the same Eraser I use, it has a quite scary 'Create Nuke Boot Disc' utility.  I use it mainly for deleting large files, such as unwanted music downloads, as it also cleans up the free space left behind when deleting files.  A useful utility, indeed.

[Tony]

Yep thats the one Simon.