Western Digital's site has a tool for doing that. That's what I use...
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From: "Branko" <kozmo3k@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "SLUG" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:26 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Clean Hard Drive
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> I know this was discussed here before, but I'll ask anyway:
> What is a recommended program to clean (securely reformat) a hard drive
> on a 'puter before passing it on to someone else?
> I'm thinking in terms running a live CD (Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc) for that
> purpose. Or even a floppy run program.
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