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Many more options, and you may already have one
There are a lot of similar tools out there. Hard drive manufacturers have tools available. As an example Western Digital's Data Lifeguard tool includes an option to write 0s to the entire hard drive. Some other partitioning and hard drive management tools include wipe options as well. Minitool's Partition Wizard includes a few different options including the DoD standards for secure wiping of disks. Your PC manufacturer may also have a free tool. Lenovo has a tool called Secure Data Disposal. It was originally written by IBM, but then transferred to Lenovo when they bought IBM's PC business unit. In addition, some system optimization tools like TuneUp Utilities have secure shredding for files and folders.

So, there are lots of choices out there, but check the tools you already have. You might already have this capability in one of your other tools.
Posted by Haligonian
Updated - 12th Oct