need a disc wiper

[Hugger]

I have 2 hard drives with beta versions of windows 7 on them.
I want to use them for back ups.
I'm trying to find a free easy to use disc wiper that will do the OS as well as anything else on the drives.
I tried to Google this but didn't see anything.
Thanks for any help.
Hugger

[Brian K]

Hugger,

I use CopyWipe for DOS.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php

[andyman35]

For a secure wipe I use DBAN,it's a bootable cd :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/

If you want to wipe a secondary drive from within Windows you could use Eraser:

http://eraser.heidi.ie/

[OldMX]

Any live *nix distro should work for that.

[Hugger]

Thanks for the suggestions.
I've downloaded dban and copy wipe and burned them to cds.
Hook up the hard drive I want to wipe and dban will boot the pc but doesn't allow/recognize the keyboard.
Copy wipe doesn't even boot the pc.
The drives I want to wipe are 32 bit Windows 7.
I guess I'll have to keep looking.
Thanks.
Hugger

[Brian K]

-{ Quote: "
Copy wipe doesn't even boot the pc.
" }-
Strange. You made the CD with makedisk.exe? Does the CD boot in other computers?

[culla]

plug them in as external drives right click on the drive and format that will do it

[nanana1]

@Hugger : How's your FF bookmarks issue now, working ?:P

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1629772&postcount=52