Cleaning Hard Drive

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Chrisb

Geek Trainee
I have a new computer and plannning to sell old one.
I want to ensure that hard drives are clean before I sell. i.e that files/folders cannot be recovered.

I am now using ''Eraser'' software which came with my latest computer Microsoft Mag, to clean hard drive. My question is, will this be sufficient to do the job or will I ned another form of software?

Your help would be much appreciated
Yours ChrisB
 
I think that once you have formatted a drive it will take a hell of a recovery program to find anything. Even then data might be too obscure.
Unless you had state secrets on there I think this should do the trick.
 
Actually a lot of the time, files can be recovered even after a format, thats why some tools like PartitionMagic have a secure erase option when deleting partitions.
 
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