Which is the best erasing program?

panais · 28 Mar 2011

I will sale my old sata hard disks.(i want to buy the ocz solid state)
So which is the most reliable program to erase some personal documents family pics and videos?

StalkeR · 28 Mar 2011

Format it with Low Level Format.
Disk formatting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ignatzatsonic · 28 Mar 2011

I see you are using WD hard disks.

The WD hard disk utility package includes an option to write zeroes to any disk.

Mike Connor · 28 Mar 2011

Which is the "Best" of anything is often largely subjective, however, if you want a very good erasing program free;

Eraser

<http://eraser.heidi.ie/>

Regards....Mike Connor

panais · 28 Mar 2011

Mike Connor said:

Which is the "Best" of anything is often largely subjective, however, if you want a very good erasing program free;

Eraser

<http://eraser.heidi.ie/>

Regards....Mike Connor

I will try that Eraser
First i will erase some pics,videos,documents and then i will try to <<undelete/recover them.
So now i will need also the most reliable <<strong>> program for files recovering for testing.

Mike Connor · 28 Mar 2011

panais said:

I will try that Eraser
First i will erase some pics,videos,documents and then i will try to <<undelete/recover them.
So now i will need also the most reliable <<strong>> program for files recovering for testing.

Try this,

Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download

But it doesn't matter what you try, no normal program can bring back files deleted with "Eraser". A forensic expert using very special tools might just be able to recover something, but nobody else will.

Regards....Mike Connor

pricetech · 28 Mar 2011

A simple zero fill will wipe it clean enough for most cases. I like dban for securely wiping a drive.