how do you delete a hard drive completely so that no data can be obtained?
ive heard of drilling holes in them, then starting it up.is it true and is there any other way to do it
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Jump to PostThat was a good one! you can try drilling holes if that works for you! Else if you really need some solution then use the format utility and over write it with some other data.
Jump to PostDownload active kill disk it will delete all data and wont have a chance of rocovering them again.
Jump to PostThis utilisy is in kernel or dos mode and it will clear everything that you think you want to get rid of. Have u tried it
Jump to Post??? wtf y would you drill holes in a harddrive unless your stupid.
unless you never want to use it again
y dont you just format the hard disk in the BIOS
by pressing either 'esape, f10, f9, f11, f12, delete or f1,2,3,4,5' during startup
it only takes …
Jump to Postramjo is right.. Try "Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser" utility. Add some protection, put a password on it. But be careful..... always remember your password...
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