How do you erase your hard drive?

Question

How do you erase your hard drive?

Answer 1

Download gparted or parted magic live cd. burn the iso file to a disk and boot the computer with it. Then you will be able to reformat your hdd. To learn windows hacks visit my website. The link is in my profile

Answer 2

If by erase, you mean reformat, you need to have your OS CD at hand. Put it in, and during boot, press... I think it's F11. If it doesn't work, just try like F10 or something.

Answer 3

A drive that has been formatted can be recovered, at least some of it. Nuke Boot Disc will overwrite your data so that you can't really get it back without an electron Microscope.

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Answer 4

If you want to erase it completely...here is a good trick.

Take it out and put a speaker magnet over it.  Needs to be a good size speaker.  You can use a car stereo speaker too.  That will rearrange all of the magnetic information on the platters rendering the disk non readable.  You will have to reformat the drive to get it working.

Answer 5

c:\fdisk.

Or use a magnet stronger than 5000 oerstead