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Originally posted by Trixxxia
The scary thing is I know alot of us donate our old computers - you think a format works - but any teenager with time & inclination can recover your files - I've been reading alot of these sites 
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There was a television program on tv in the UK a few months back outlining that problem where thief's were buying old hard drives off ebay and wherever they could for the soul purpose of using hard drive restoration programs to steal peoples CC info and important passwords. Kinda scary I though, since i use my current computer for this biz I want to make extra sure that my info is wiped.
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Originally posted by Trixxxia
There are a few products to totally wipe your hard drive - I just didn't bookmark them - here's a quick one - but I'm not sure if it only deletes your everyday files or if it will 'robustly' format your hard drive. The other thing is that the only way it will become unrecoverable is if they are replaced by other files.
Apparently, Evidence Eliminator can do it.
Here are a few others that I found:
http://www.iolo.com/ds/
http://www.east-tec.com/
I hope that helps :-)
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I've done some research myself and Evidence Elliminator came top compared to competitors. It has functions like -
Magnetic Remenace in Directory Structures - Enabling secure Under-Writing of Directory Structures
File Structure - Enabling secure Under-Writing of File Structures
Those are just two examples but I just wanted comfirmation from a few people that this program does infact wipe, overwrite and delete everything. Its an impressive program which can also speed up your computer a lot when used regularly by eliminating swap files and a bunch of other cool stuff