Hard Drive Eraser is a free Windows application that permanently erases the data on whole volumes (hard drives). It does so by filling the magnetic surface multiple times with useless binary data. It is a known fact that it is impossible to permanently destroy data just by formatting hard drive. It doesn´t matter if you use Windows formatting or pay for a commerical disk formatting program. It wont work.

In it´s essence formatting drive is same as deleting files in Windows and than removing them from Recycle Bin. Just a small bits of information (links to files) are removed but the files still reside on hard drive and it is very easy to recover them using either commercial solution or one of applications for data recovery. That´s why you may want to use Hard Drive Eraser, to shred the drive partition beyond any possible recovery.

Hard Drive Eraser will work on any computer with Windows Vista or Windows XP Operating System. Hard Drive Eraser uses an advanced and secure algorithms to erase drive volumes and partitions. The speed of erasing is dependant of the speed of your system, particularly hard drive.

Features:
Securely erases whole volumes, disk drives, partitions or floppy drives.
Overwrites data multiple times using one of four advanced algorithms which assure erased data can not be recovered.
Works with all file systems (NTFS, FAT32, FAT).
Simple, light weight and optimized for speed.
Peter Guttman method for users paranoidly concerned about security of their data.