[ale] erasing a hard drive

Richard Bronosky richardbronosky at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 07:22:59 EDT 2011


NTFS destroys a drive. ;-)
On Aug 26, 2011 7:12 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:
> I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I can
> use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?
>
> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't want to
> bother trying to figure out what's on them.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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