wagginfinger Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 can anyone recommend a freeware program to wipe out confidential files---eg passwords and credit card info--thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Do you want to securely wipe the whole hard drive or just the files in question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddler8 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 http://eraser.heidi.ie/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagginfinger Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 the whole hard drive ---so I can sell the laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddler8 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Do you have media to reinstall the OS? http://www.dban.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 the whole hard drive ---so I can sell the laptop In that case I was going to recommend Eraser that waddler8 linked to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harestone Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Personally i boot with Killdisc and use it's formatting tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampster Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I used parted magic on a usb stick.. and use the disk eraser tools on there, it has multiple methods of data destruction. Easiest and quickest by far if it's a SATA drive is the drives built in Secure Erase function.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeeeeeeeeek Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 ccleaner is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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