OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

[Frank Murphy (Frankly3d)]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most 
> dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or 
> some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data?
> 
> Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to 
> every storage location?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Cochran
> 

Anglegrinder or Drill lots of holes.

FRank

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