Secure cleaning of a HDD

Cleaning a HDD

Is there a shortcut method to securely erasing data on a used - empty HDD rather than e.g. 1TB HDD x Gutman (35 passes) method?

Seeing as how nothing on the disk needs to be saved, is there a way of 'nuking' it to save valuable & resources?

 

Darik's Boot and Nuke quick erase, single pass, HDDErase, Active@Killdisk single pass anyone?

 

You can use the free "disk wipe"
http://www.diskwipe.org/download.php

The Guttman method is for paranoid.
Usually, 1 pass with random data is more than enough.
But you can use DoD 5220.22-M 3 or 7 passes.

Another free program that I like is "Check Flash"
http://mikelab.kiev.ua/index_en.php?page=PROGRAMS/programs_en
I usually write zeros or "FF" and then verify the surface.

Panagiotis

 

There are also:

1. The hard drive manufacturer's diagnostics which usually has an option to write zeros to the hard drive.

2. Terabyte's CopyWipe.

3. MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable CD.