How to help make sure all data is erased on hard drive.

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If you are looking for additional information about simply erasing your hard disk drive and starting over, we recommend you refer to document CH000186.

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If you concerned with data being read or recovered from your hard disk drive after it has sold or given away, we highly recommend you try the utilities found at the below web pages. Using one of these utilities will allow you to completely remove all data and make it impossible to be recovered and/or read.

Product	Web Page	Info
Blancco	http://dban.sourceforge.net/	Cost
DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke)	http://www.blancco.com	Free and commercial version.
Disk Wiper	http://www.diskwiper.com	Cost
Eraser	http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/	Free to all
Experteraser	http://www.experteraser.com/	Cost
FileAssurity	http://www.articsoft.com/fileassurity_securedelete.htm	Cost
Harddisk Eraser	http://www.linux-kurser.dk/secure_harddisk_eraser.html	Free to all
M-Sweep	http://www.secure-data.com/ms.html	Cost and only available to certain customers.
NecroFile	http://www.necrocosm.com/nfinfo.html	Free to all.
No Trace	http://www.comtechnologies.com/notracemain.html	Cost
Permanent Erasure	http://www.winhex.com/security/index-m.html	Free to all.
SDelete	http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/sdelete.shtml	Free to all

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