Clean Up your Hard Drive Before Selling
by admin on May.03, 2007, under Security, Software, Systems
If you are giving away a hard drive, selling it, or even disposing of a hard drive that you have had your data on you are going to want to wipe the drive clean.
Just because you have “deleted” your data doesn’t mean that someone can’t recover it. There is a utility called Secure Erase that you can use to erase all the tracks on your hard drive. This product has been approved by National Institute for Standards and Testing (NIST).
Download it for free here.