Posted: 6/29/2009 3:07:40 PM EDT
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I'm looking for a windows program to erase the non boot/non system drive. something to zero out \Device\HarddiskX\Partition0 sadly, the port of dd is too complicated for the users, though it does get the job done.  and no, don't say dban.  thanks. |
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What's wrong with dban?
Turn off computer, unplug any drive you want to save, boot from dban CD and let it work on the drive/s you want erased. If you don't need an ubersecure wipe of the drive, just boot from a linux live run CD and do a couple of full drive formats using different file systems. |
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What's wrong with dban? Turn off computer, unplug any drive you want to save, boot from dban CD and let it work on the drive/s you want erased. If you don't need an ubersecure wipe of the drive, just boot from a linux live run CD and do a couple of full drive formats using different file systems. Not really. A format usually just creates a file table and volume information and forgets about data already on the drive. Bad block check + format checks for bad blocks then formats. Nothing really gets "erased", just replaced or lost on the disk. dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/zero "works". It writes 0s to the drive. Data could still be recovered, but it would be hard without forensics tools. |
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I'm not really finding what you want.
You could do a more exhaustive search on sourceforge or freshmeat. That's where I go for free software, and they generally have windows installers of the software for download. |
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dban
eraser http://www.heidi.ie/node/6 some more options: http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml |
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Quoted: dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/zero I hope you're not a unix admin. I already looked at eraser and from what i could tell it only wipes partitions.  Most products go on about secure wiping and i just need to blank the drive so it looks unused to certain non windows software. Thanks though. |
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dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/zero I hope you're not a unix admin. I already looked at eraser and from what i could tell it only wipes partitions.
Most products go on about secure wiping and i just need to blank the drive so it looks unused to certain non windows software. Thanks though. I got the if and the of mixed up again, didn't I. 
That's not a problem about deleting the partitions. On XP you can go to the Control Panel and open Computer Management from there. Then on the storage list, select disk management. From there it should be pretty straight forward. Keep in mind you are deleting the partitions. You will need to create new partitions later to use the disk. You could also use the DOS program FDISK to do this, and most Linux distros have a version of fdisk that allows you to create partitions for just about every filesystem and operating system under the sun. With fdisk, you can even delete and create new partitions at the same time, and nothing is physically changed with the disk until you command it. Also, I've never really needed to delete partitions ahead of time when installing a new OS. |
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http://www.killdisk.com/
There might still be a free version of this. |