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Securely wipping a hard drive
Not sure where to put this but I need to send a hard drive back to Western Digital and was wondering if programs like Paragon's Wipe disk which uses DoD 5220-2M algorithm to wipe info renders the dive inactive?
In short will using a software secure wipe program render the HD inoperative, which is something I'm not tying to do.
Thanks.
BTW I don't really need anything elaborate as the info on the drive isn't that secret, but just enough that someone has to work to recover the info if they were nosey enough to do so.
Thanks.