Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[hammersdr]

I've been currently been having issues with system corruption. I've reformatted my HDD but still having issues and thinking I didn't completely wip my drive clean. I just order and about ready to install new updated OS and would like to do a full wipe by writting zero's to the HDD before I install new OS to insure a clean platform. How would I do that?   

[John Doe 69]

I've used a program called Fileshredder 2.  Format and Install the drive as a slave in another pc if available and use FS2 to wipe free space.

[Hamartolos]

Seatools for DOS can do that. 

[A101011]

"Darek's Boot-N-Nuke" [DBAN] will definately wipe it even to US Defense Dept. specs. However, I tried it with a SATA 250GB and was looking at about 8 DAYS to complete the whole drive. I don't know if that's something you want to try but it will definately kill all the ones and zeros on it now...