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Best program to wipe a HDD?

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Just format the disk when reinstalling Windows

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My friend and I are moving his alienware x51 to a new case, and he bought a new mobo, cpu, psu, case, and WINDOWS 8.1. We are reusing the RAM and HDD from his x51 and I just need to know what the best program to use to wipe his HDD would be. He says that he just wants to do a clean install so there won't be any driver issues, so that is why I need some help. Any help would be appreciated!

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Just format the disk when reinstalling Windows

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if you are worried, there is boot n' nuke. it will kill all data, and if you let it run long enough, your hard drive as well xD

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