Active Kill Disk

[Quadophile]

Has anyone used this software?

http://www.killdisk.com/

If so what is your impression? Is there any other software similar to this?

 

[Ian]

IIRC, I've used that on the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) when I've cleared out an old PC that I gave away, I just wanted to make sure someone couldn't run an undelete application and get all my documents, photos and passwords back. From what I remember, it took a while to run and I assume it did the job ok

There are other free hard drive wiping tools on the UBCD, so it's really handy as a one-fix solution to lots of problems (also cloning, restore, partition manager etc... tools on there).

 

[Quadophile]

Thanks Ian, will check it out as it sounds interesting from the way you describe it.

 

[Ian]

Yep, it's really handy - especially if you put it on a USB stick instead of a CD. If I ever need to fix a PC it's one of the first tools I use

 

[Abarbarian]

http://www.dban.org/news.html

I've never used the program "killdisk" but it sounds pretty neat. Have used DBAN which can be a bit tempermental with badly configured hardware and software. Worked on two pc's but could not get it to play on a third. Seems to have a good reputation.

I liked the name is why I tried it.