need a disc wiper

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

 

Hugger,

I use CopyWipe for DOS.

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

 

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/

 

Any live *nix distro should work for that.

 

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

 

Strange. You made the CD with makedisk.exe? Does the CD boot in other computers?

 

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

 

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

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