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John	posted on 27th Apr 09 at 12:05
	Hard drives are rated to hundreds of G's these days.
Sam	posted on 27th Apr 09 at 11:59
	Just smack it against a hard surface a couple of times, that's what we used to do for warranty replacements when I worked for a PC World type outfit back in the days when I were a young lad.
M2RTY	posted on 26th Apr 09 at 06:50
	dban or seagate do a free app
chloe16v	posted on 24th Apr 09 at 23:02
	quote: Originally posted by Dom Does anyone know any software that will complete erase (or destroy) a hard drive (with random character etc passes)? Need to send a drive back for replacement and want to completely get rid of the data on the drive (and/or screw it up more if possible). :wave: if you wasnt watchin kiddy porn you wouldnt need to do this :lol::P
Tim	posted on 20th Apr 09 at 16:52
	As Paul says Active Killdisk, or Google for DBAN. That generally works with hardware RAID too :)
Dom	posted on 20th Apr 09 at 15:06
	quote: Originally posted by John http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/ yeah it's the one i usually use, but need a windows program as Dos programs don't find my sata drives due to a raid array - had problems with using the dos version of seatools and partition magic and all sorts. cheers paul, will give it a go :thumbs:
Pablo	posted on 20th Apr 09 at 14:53
	Try kill disk
John	posted on 20th Apr 09 at 14:14
	http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/
mazdaspeed	posted on 20th Apr 09 at 14:12
	Do large magnets work?
Dom	posted on 20th Apr 09 at 14:10
	Does anyone know any software that will complete erase (or destroy) a hard drive (with random character etc passes)? Need to send a drive back for replacement and want to completely get rid of the data on the drive (and/or screw it up more if possible). :wave: