The only real way to clean a hard drive is to destroy it. Other than  
that, I recommend DBAN http://dban.sourceforge.net/

DBAN is a bootable CD or floppy that gives you several options on  
number of passes, algorithm, etc... I've had good luck with it.


On Feb 28, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Michael Hannon wrote:

> Greetings.  I'd be interested to know how you "wipe" a hard drive  
> before disposing it.  I.e., I don't mean "how one wipes a hard  
> drive" in general.  I'd like to know what you folks out there are  
> actually using.
>
> Thanks.
>
> 					- Mike
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