Free Hard Disk Eraser Program (for donation)

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Go this from ebay.com:
http://pages.ebay.com/rethink/sell.html

If you are planning on donating your computer to charity, you will want to be sure and erase the contents of the hard disk drive.

"To protect the privacy of your personal information and have peace of mind, the entire hard drive must be erased using Blancco Data Cleaner."

"Blancco Data Cleaner will overwrite your entire hard drive with random and meaningless data, eliminating any possibility to recover information from your PC."

http://asp.blancco.com/ebayerasure/
 
How much of a donation ????

Has anyone tried this program????

And is there any other Same Programs?/?
 
You don't need to donate anything to get the program. It is just useful if you wish to donate a computer without having someone illegally restore your data. I will be trying it soon since I have about four HDDs to wipe clean within the next couple of days.
 
I collect Hardware for that reason, I put together machines for seniors and friends kids to start on. It is hard to find hard drives, I look for the 12-20 range so i can load more than the O.S. & some office programs for the adults. I have a company willing to donate them so i can pass them on but I have to scrub them on there property.
so I was looking for somthing other than the norton I have.
KK
 
I've now used the Blannco utility and don't really like it:
1. You must double-click the file program and download the utility each time you wish to use it. Apparently, you have 'unlimited' licenses, but you have to create a new boot disk for each hard drive you wish to clean.
2. You have to have a second floppy for the utility to write information about your computer (presumably so that you can upload the file to ebay and sell the computer).

To be honest, I didn't think this program would be so much hassle. I am going to look for a bootable DOS wipe utility. Canuck, the program you listed has such a utility. I'll look into that as well.
 
This may work for you!

I run a small computer business and I often run into the same problem. :hmm: I found a simple solution that works great for me.

I took a small harddrive, ran a couple of the wipe programs out there to be sure it was a completely clean drive, then just installed the minimal files to boot the drive (MSDOS with CD-ROM drivers).

Using GHOST (the disk imaging software), I made a ghost image of the drive and copied it to a CD I made bootable.

When I put the CD in a machine and boot it up, it automatically starts, and reads the information from the CD (the original hard drive image) and copies it right over the drive I'm trying to wipe.

I have tried every restore program I could to see if I could restore any of the info from the newly-wiped drive and could never find anything. I'm not saying the FBI couldn't disassemble the drive and recover some of the files, but no average person could restore this drive!

Be careful with this though! I had this disk at the last place I worked at copied onto a floppy and the boss thought it was a blank disk and decided to use it. To make a long story short (or is it too late already?) , after 3 days of trying we were unable to save anything on his drive after he rebooted the PC with the disk in the drive.. and him with no backups! (whoops!) :(

The following link explains how to make a bootable CD using ghost:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2000030611414425?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1

Good luck!
 
Thanks Reggie. I'll look into this, although the program from Canuck works fairly well. It allows you to choose how to wipe the disk.
 
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