Afternoon all,
Just wondered if anyone could recommend a decent (free of course) diskwiping software. Have a hard drive that I want to make sure has no recoverable data on it before I re-install Windows on it. Seen a few about: diskwipe, eraser etc but anyone got any experience?

Cheers,

mads

My work use this.

Plus tey forat first then fdisk then do this.

http://www.dban.org/

It's called duke n nuke

Just about any Linux live CD can do this at the command line:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M oflag=direct

That will tell it to write zeroes over the entire disk blowing away all your data, the partition table, everything.
Be sure this is what you really want There's no coming back from this, it will look like a brand new disk.