format HDD

[pheonixsingh]

hi

i got some old pc's that im going to sell but before i do i need to completely wipe the HDD's i know with normal formatting data can still be recovered but i remember a program out to completely wipe it so no data can be retrieved, just want to do it as i dont know how many of my details could be on the pc, thanks in advance for any help

[bugmonsta]

Back in my days, a low level format used to be all you need....

Try this util from seagate - it fills your drives with zeros so any undelete/restore will show nothing!
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html


Also just found these tools which you may find usefull:
IBM(Hitachi)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/index.htm

Fujitsu
http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en&CID=1

Samsung
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm
FAQ: Low level format

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

[pheonixsingh]

thnxs mate have some karma