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Hello Everyone:
How do I reformat zeros on my hard drive to erase all info?
We are not your personal information service. We like to help people but I try not to encourage laziness. I'll bet if you try that exact same question in Google, you'll get dozens of links to freeware (among hundreds of others) programs that do what you need.
Ralph
by friends
There are tons of software to do so.
However, it would be great idea if you use
the Disk Manager of your hard disc's brand.
Download the program and execute it, it will
be made up into a floppy disk.
Then boot-up using the Disk Manager, there
you go... find the Zero Fill or Low Level Format function there.
Hard Disc brands:
Seagate : http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html
Maxtor : http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
Western Digital : http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
if you use other than these hard disc brand, try to locate yourself.
by speberle
by cloates
If you are familiar with Linux you can use the shred command. If you don't have Linux installed but would like to learn you can use a version called Knoppix, which is bootable from a CD and doesn't require any installation. You can download it for free.
The shred command will overwrite the hard drive with random data the number of times that you specify. There is a command option to zero the data in the final overwrite.
If you don't have any experience with Linux, you should be able to find a disk utlity for Windows by searching the internet. There are several that come in free versions such as killdisk.
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