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Originally posted by serpico

but this will really destroy your Hard Drive.  Interested?

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i think supersonicdarky wanted to get rid of all the data on the HDD, not destroy the HDD

try the utility posted by wj, this will make the data unrecoverable due to being overwritten by 0's as wj said.

to download the program, it needs authorization, anyone knoe the password or other location for it?

If you don't have any hacker/techie enemies or important information, then just reformating should suffice. Otherwise go for wj's utility, pretty good. Although a deguassing loop works much better IMO.

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Originally posted by jren207
try the utility posted by wj, this will make the data unrecoverable due to being overwritten by 0's as wj said

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same with drivescrubber it overwrites with 0's and/or random #s you have a lot of control over how it does it and can interrupt the process at any time

i also need  a program that can recover the files (before zeroing the disk)

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Originally posted by Joa

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Originally posted by jren207
try the utility posted by wj, this will make the data unrecoverable due to being overwritten by 0's as wj said

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same with drivescrubber it overwrites with 0's and/or random #s you have a lot of control over how it does it and can interrupt the process at any time

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It's binary, there isn't really a whole lot of numbers that you can use in binary, just 1s and 0s. Unless you use an advanced HDD that stores information in decimal.

Why don't you just backup everything from Windows (or whatever OS you use) before you wipe the disk?

no, i want a program that can recover files that don't get deleted after formating the disk, the opposite of diskscrubber which deletes them

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
It's binary, there isn't really a whole lot of numbers that you can use in binary, just 1s and 0s. Unless you use an advanced HDD that stores information in decimal.

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my bad , sorry... thanks for correcting me though (i'm not a pro with this stuff)

and .. system mechaninc also has the option of recovering files. its pretty good. i used it...

here's the link to the trial
http://www.iolo.com/sm/5pro/indexsr.cfm

Edit: i know its 1's and 0's btw, just i'm stupid sometimes with what i say.

does system mechanic do both (erase/recover)?

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Originally posted by supersonicdarky
does system mechanic do both (erase/recover)?

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yeah. click on the links i gave ya, it has many options .. you can download each individually or the whole thing i think