What are doing? Giving the computer to your Mom and your afraid that she'll find out who the true you is. Fill your hard-drive with jpgs erase and do it two more times and there will only be file fragments to recover and I doubt that there would be many people that could make any sense of them. Gerhard On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 08:11PM, r weaver <weaverrw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hello, > >I am looking for software to format a hard drive to completely erase all >data so that it cannot be recovered. >Anyone know what program, or process can do this? Or where to get info on >how to scrub a hard drive for resale so that sensitive/confidential data is >eliminated? I have been told to search for a military hard drive formatting >program but I don't have a name for the program (suspect that it's not >Canadian) >Thanks, > >Bob Weaver >weaverrw@xxxxxxxxxxxx _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/