Sold my PC...how to clean my HDD?

eapro

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Is it still true that the only way to make sure your data is gone is by smashing the harddrive?

I have the westerndigital raptor x and I need to go to fedex in less than 30minutes today so please rely fast. thanx.
 
Just do a full format...there's no way to be completely sure they won't get data off it, but if you just format it it's very unlikely they'll get anything. Professional data recovery costs thousands of dollars, so I wouldn't worry about it.
 
lol what would defragging do??? and 13 times for kill disk is not nessisary, i'd say 7 is perfect.
 
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