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Wiping a Hard Drive... Would DBAN work?

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Hey there ShadowDiety,
 
Any program taht fills the drive with zeros should do the trick. I could recommend using WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Z2jW1M
The full "writing zeros" process takes a lot of time but completely wipes the whole drive. :) 
 
Feel free to ask if you happen to have any questions 
 
Captain_WD.
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Filling a drive with zeros that contains the OS is very hard to do because you will delete the OS and there's nothing to run the software that does this. You can boot another OS and run the program from it or simply take the drive out and connect it to another computer and do this from there. :) This should be the safest and easiest option. :)
 
Captain_WD.

 

This worked great, thank  you so much.  I will mark as solved!

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This worked great, thank  you so much.  I will mark as solved!

 

Glad I could help :) Feel free to ask if you need any other help.

 

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WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic too

you would suggest that wouldn't you :P not bias at all

jk we love you Captain! :wub:

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you would suggest that wouldn't you :P not bias at all

jk we love you Captain! :wub:

 

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