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Sam Ceccola
09-30-2006, 08:49 AM
A couple months ago, there were post on this BBS dealing with getting rid of data on a hard drive. The one suggestion that sticks in my mind was taking a drill bit and doing a job on the platters.

That solution is too drastic for me. I need to send an external hard drive back to the manufacturer via a RMA request. This drive contains my system backup information.

What's the best way to clean the drive before sending it back?

Sam

jflan
09-30-2006, 01:04 PM
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)
It's free and very thorough. IIRC, it takes about 6hrs to scrub an 80GB.
I use the floppy version, there is also a CD version.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/