With all that being said, The Opening Poster has had a multitude of applications presented to him. All the information is there. It's now up to him to look at our recommendations.
Let's now tag this as closed?
thank you for the assistance, I went with the free Killdisk software. It was time consuming but at least its done.
Hello mate.
For future use, all you need is a Vista or Windows 7 installation DVD or a created repair disk to write zeroes to a Hard Disk Drive, have a look at Step One of this tutorial at the link below.
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
DISKPART : At PC Startup
Or step #7 of this one to do a wipe to a separate HDD from within Windows.
Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
Good to see you got it sorted though.
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