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Hard Disc Scrubber

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Posted by Merle Cook on September 10, 2007 at 11:37 AM
I have a couple of old computers I am going to donate to charities. Does anyone know of a disc scrubber I can purchase to totally clean the "C" Drive of all information ?

Thanks for the help... :confused:
Posted by Dave Gill on September 10, 2007 at 3:20 PM
Both Norton and McAfee have that function.
Posted by Don Miller on September 10, 2007 at 5:13 PM
You need one that creates a bootable disk. I believe the ones Dave listed only wipe empty space.

There are several free ones , like

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

It wipes the whole disk, including the OS. It's bootable from disk or CD, so it's not OS specific.
Posted by Merle Cook on September 12, 2007 at 8:37 AM
Thanks Guys - I appreciate the input. I was told yesterday that a friend has a scrubber disc and he will come to the house and do it for free !!!!! Not to bad a deal. :smile:
Posted by Dave Gill on September 14, 2007 at 1:56 PM
The price sounds right!