Advice on Data Whipping Software

Hi folks

I'm planning to sell some of my hard-drives but am aware that I need to erase all the inforamtion from them.

I've also been made aware that even when you remaster a hard-drive, the information is still potentially able to be recovered.

A colleage told me that using a "data-whipping" software was the best way forward and stated that this type of software either encrypted the erased information, or removed them all together.

I would be most grateful if someone could advise me regarding which software would be most suited to this task. Im running windows 7 presesntly and the hard drives are all IDE cabeld one's.

Many thanks !

 

DBAN - or Darik's Boot and Nuke - it is a boot cd that does DOD wipes, I'd use it if the drives were the only ones in the computer, you don't want to wipe your OS drive.
http://majorgeeks.com/Dariks_Boot_and_Nuke_d4596.html

or Wiper - runs on the OS and wipes drives.
http://eraser.heidi.ie/

 

That should be "data-wiping" software. Use this one or search for others.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Active_KillDisk_d4791.html

 

I've used sdelete from http://majorgeeks.com/Sysinternals_Suite_d5473.html

Others can be found here: http://majorgeeks.com/downloads12.html