On 11 August 2010 11:01, Byte Soup <bytes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
> them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do this?
> I have used "shred" to remove files, but I dont think it can do an entire
> disc (i.e. some previously deleted files)
>

DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke.

http://www.dban.org/

Just be sure you only have the disk you want to fry plugged in when
you run it, and not a disk containing your lovingly curated collection
of pony pictures.

Cheers,
Al.

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