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You can't have a program that securely erase your system disk that runs inside the windows for two reasons :ġ - Windows forbid low level access to the hard drive.

Have you tried to cut a tree branch being on that same branch ? Or a solution that exists as a premade floppy image and comes with a gui of some kind? Does anyone know a disk wiping software, that can be started from within windows to wipe the systemdrive? The downside to ATA Secure Erase is that it won't tell you if the drive has bad sectors or not and there is no progress indicator. I've also tried dban, WhiteCanyon's WipeDrive, Killdisk, Acronis Drive Cleanser, and Paragon's Disk Wiper and nwipe is still the fastest and most robust. so if the wipe and verify completes successfully, it's safe to say that all sectors are good as well.

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Plus i like that in nwipe you can see the drive throughput live as it is wiping, that way if it dips to some ridiculously low number during the wiping, you can just turn it off and destroy the drive since it has clearly failed. It's decent and usable, but has nowhere near the amount of options for wiping schemes that nwipe has. Kind of a pain to get to, but if your old neighbor has the right disk there is no need to burn or prep any other media.ĭoh! I totally forgot about the wipe feature in DaRT. Once the OS is detected enter the Repair tools and pull up the MS DaRT toolset.

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Boot to the DVD, select your keyboard language, then select repair, a link hidden on the bottom left, at the Install Now screen. If your friend has a Windows Vista/7/2008+ DVD there is a disk wipe tool built in with a 4-pass DoD wipe option.

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That might be better than 'nuke' the entire HD (including the OS).Īnother thought is that if it has the 'restore' function (or CD), run that, then one of these other windows tools that erases the free space, like eraser OR I did some basic searching, and there are other tools inside windows that let you 'delete all you files', leave the OS intact, and then securely (?) erase the files you 'deleted'. Well, DBAN (can boot from floppy) and no command line parameters, but old style 'UI' (hard to call it graphical ) google it and go to sourceforge sit if you want to see some screen shots. I thought, i'd might get around mailing him a NaughtyPE. Since his old computer still had a floppy drive, a solution that runs from floppy would also work, given that it has a GUI he can use. GUIĪ program with GUI that could be started from within Windows, but would work on the next reboot, sounded like the best solution. Problem is, there is no use in sending him any tool that requires some commandline parameters to work. A neighbor and friend, who moved away a few months ago, called me, because he wants to sell his old computer and remembered, me telling him about wiping a hdd rather than smashing it.