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Originally Posted by twowheels
It's sometimes a drive specific thing. There's a standard command, but some drives don't implement it. If they're 12 years old, then they're probably not quite as sophisticated and a standard erase tool should be more than enough.
Try one of these:
http://www.dban.org/
http://www.killdisk.com/ |
Thanks twowheels. They look great. Two questions: are these similar to Bleachbit? The other question was DBAN said this:
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DBAN is also a commonly used solution to remove viruses and spyware from Microsoft Windows installations.
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Would that be like if I had an old Windows computer that I wanted to intsall Linux on I would use the DBAN on the Windows installation first?