Wanted: Very effective file shredder

In short, my situation is this: My Gaming Monster, my baby, my shiny jewel, is being replaced. The company that built it has after a lot of phone calls agreed to replace all components with factory new parts, since the need for extensive repairs is all their fault.

Brief tangent: Liquid cooling rocks, when installed correctly. When installed incorrectly it doesn't work. :cry

Back on topic. Every component needs to go back, including the hard drive. The company will reformat it and put it in their "For Repairs"-pile of refurbished parts, because that is how these things work. I really don't want someone else to receive this hard drive, have something happen to it, run a file recovery utility, and find my files recovered along with their own.

I need an effective and reliable file shredder. Suggestions?

 

Try "Glaryutilities" Its got a good shredder and wiper as well . Cheers..

 

Doh. I have that one installed on this computer. I feel stupid.

*checked out Glary Utilities file shredder* So this one is actually as effective as it claims?

 

You may want to read this
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=129

 

Ooooo...! Fascinating reading! Thanks chaimjm

I will check out the nuke utilities linked to in that blog. AFTER I have copied all my vital info off the hard drive... :-D

 

I've used it and then tried a few recovery programes ...NO go. But then again I'm no pro.

 

Link in article not working here is the correct one for Secure Erase if you want to go that way
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

 

That's a good idea. I'll run file recovery on the drive to make sure things are gone, before I send it in

 

I just noticed the link in the article was dead. Thanks again