Drive Cleaner?

Could someone suggest a good Drvie Cleaner. I was given a 60gig WD today that has some...we'll say questionable content on it. I would like to use it, but would much rather it be "completely" clean. Will CCleaner do that for me or will it still leave stuff behind? If I cannot make it clean then I will just give it back.

I do plan to reformat, but that won't be enough right?

Any help would be most appreciated.

 

I will wipe it entirely, but I just want to make sure that anything on it could not be taken off at a later date. Meaning I don't want to get into trouble for anything that might be on there now. It has Windows 98 on it and not much of anything else, except a ton of pictures. That's what is concerning me though. Most of it is questionable. Maybe I should just give it back. I know if I had stuff like that on my computer, I surely wouldn't be giving it away in that state.

 

I would think that the easist way to be sure is to make it a Slave, and then format it.
IMHO it is much better to start fresh.
Take a look at the HDD and it should show you the jumper configuration to set it to Slave.
Then it's a simple matter of right-clicking and selecting 'format'.
Yours,
522.
*edit*: further explaination.

 

Assuming that it is a secondary hard drive (you have XP installed) and you do not want to format then go here and grab this.

"Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ permanently erases a file so that sticky beaks cannot recover it. A deleted file stays on the hard drive until it is overwritten at some future stage. Eraser fixes this and more."

Then select the Nasties and using a right click eraser will overwrite them.

If you are still concerned then open Eraser up and tell it to overwrite the whole HD.

Cheers
Robert

 

Thanks man. That is exactly what I was looking for.

I had already set it to Slave just to make sure it worked. This is how I knew what was on it. If I knew exactly where the drive came from originally, I would turn the person in. I know for a fact that it wasn't the one that gave it to me that was doing this kinda thing.

Thanks again for all the help.