Drive scrubber

[Monty]

Hey guys,

Please suggest a decent freeware drive scrubber for me.

[hamin_aus]

Also, this

[rustypup]

electromagnet... sadly, this will also irreparably damage the r/w head assembly...

the better tools will perform multiple overwrites of 512byte frames with random data... actv killdisc(?), eraser, etc, etc... there's tonnes of these sods out there...

if you're going the software route, you want a low level formatting tool to process immediately after...

no software solution is guaranteed to work because of the redundancy built into modern hard drives...

[Monty]

Thanks guys

I will be trying killdisk as it has a windows executable and doesn't require a dos disk.

[rustypup]

use the DOS executed approach, (jamin's suggestion)... anything within windows will have to work through windows' HAL/HIVE... the DOS boot disk doesn't have that problem... it also performs a low-level format...

[Frozenfireside]

Boot and nuke.
I wouldn´t place my faith in Microsoft wiping anything other then important documents that you own.

[Prime]

I will add weight to the recommendation to use kill disk.

then take a folder of something large preferably disk sized and write it over and then delete that. anime works well for this.