Eraser Forum
I have a stack of old hard drives we pulled from retired computers we have gotten rid of. I am looking to dispose of those hard drives at a pc recycler location that takes back old hard drives for recycling (they are shredded and the metal sorted).
I would still like to wipe/erase the hard drives before I send them to be recycled as just another level of protection. Most of them had XP installed on them. I tried connecting one up to a computer just to erase however it ran into a bunch of files it could not access due to permissions. And then just browsing the drive it still had information on it.
Just curious what the best practice would be to erase/blank hard drives using this software. Would a quick drive format and then an erase of unused disk space be the best way or can I just do this directly from the program and avoid the permission errors.
Thanks.
I would still like to wipe/erase the hard drives before I send them to be recycled as just another level of protection. Most of them had XP installed on them. I tried connecting one up to a computer just to erase however it ran into a bunch of files it could not access due to permissions. And then just browsing the drive it still had information on it.
Just curious what the best practice would be to erase/blank hard drives using this software. Would a quick drive format and then an erase of unused disk space be the best way or can I just do this directly from the program and avoid the permission errors.
Thanks.