Erasing a Hard-drive

Anyone know of a good hard-disk erase utility. I don't want to just re-format, I want to completely wipe it out then re-format. .

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Anyone know of a good hard-disk erase utility. I don't want to just re-format, I want to completely wipe it out then re-format.

XP Pro or Win2k Pro better for this system?

NT 4.0 and 2000 Dual Boot?

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Are you talking, like low-level format? If so, you'll need utilities from your hdd company. DO NOT use another one.
 
Why do you need to do a heavy erase like that? Covering your hinie?
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If you get norton ghost it has a utility called GDISK that will do just that. We used it here at work to do exactly that. DOS command line type thing.
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I'm going to sell my PC and need to COMPLETELY erase without a trace everything.
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Then you might want to download PGP and use that to do a full wipe (I think it can do that and does a pretty good job too).
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