Software to make Harddisk data unrecoverable

[guru_urug]

Im giving off my old internal sata I 160GB to my friend. It has a lot of personal data which I backed up onto my 500GB harddisk. I know that the best way to make data unrecoverable is to repeatedly format and write garbage values and again format in cycles. Please suggest a software that does this. Thanks

[prvprv]

Active Kill Disk
You can get it here

Erase hard drive by Active@ KillDisk. Low Level Format.

[d6bmg]

There is no way, except for one.
Delete your files & make file blank with same name with zero byte of length. This is the 'only' way to make every deleted file unrecoverable.

[Neuron]

Originally Posted by d6bmg

There is no way, except for one.
Delete your files & make file blank with same name with zero byte of length. This is the 'only' way to make every deleted file unrecoverable.

Nope.You can use file shredders for this purpose.
File Shredder is a good one.

[topgear]

take a look at this link
How to REALLY erase a hard drive | ZDNet

[Zangetsu]

Originally Posted by guru_urug

Im giving off my old internal sata I 160GB to my friend. It has a lot of personal data which I backed up onto my 500GB harddisk. I know that the best way to make data unrecoverable is to repeatedly format and write garbage values and again format in cycles. Please suggest a software that does this. Thanks

There are many...but I use TuneUp Shredder....

Eraser is also good & Free

[coolpcguy]

dban it.

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing

[guru_urug]

Thanks Guys for the suggestions.

Will try them