i intend selling my 40 gig maxtor hdd at present this is my master drive hooked up to a ibm 40 gig as slave.

i know how to format and install windows xp pro by booting to the cd
however i dont wish to install an operating system i only want to wipe the drive.

cant remember seeing an option to just format a drive from booting
to the xp pro cd.

any help on just wiping the drive appreciated.

cheers

Just go to :-
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
and download the Windows 98 Boot Disk and then boot from it and format your hard-disk and that is all you have to do !!!

(in reply to tartanlad)

http://technology.pitt.edu/security/data_removal.html

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/security/fwerase.html

For all the hoohah about "secure deletion", if you zero-fill a drive once, the data is beyond anything other than theoretically possible forensic recovery, and certainly beyond user-tool recovery.

Now I am getting annoyed!
Those ****ing parasites - "Evidence Eraser" - have got themselves a TON of domain names, and spammed the hell out of the search engines.

Never EVER buy Evidence Eraser!


http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
BCWipe IS freeware, and they advertise some other products on the page - fair's fair - and I's much rather deal twith them for those other products, than the miserable jerks behind Evidence Eliminator.

(in reply to tartanlad)

thanks for your help guys going to use
http://www.killdisk.com/eraser.htm

cheers for you help makes interesting reading

(in reply to tartanlad)