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Eraser

Need to clean your hard drive, before tossing it, or selling?

Better wipe it clean. Best way is to use a secure data removal tool. True, formatting utterly several times, is almost just as good. Though, you really need something to write data, erase it, write with a very different pattern, and repeat.

Eraser is a secure data removal tool, which allows you to remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns.

The program is free software, which means that everyone has access to the source code, the freedom to study it, make modifications, and even distribute modified versions of their own. This freedom has made Eraser one of the most trustworthy and popular security tools for Windows.

Eraser (old maintainer) Web site

Platform: Windows

Glen

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