Hello.I'm not sure I'm posting in the right category but maybe you can help me. Tell me how can I format or erase all data on the C disk so no folders I have or had on it can ever be recovered. Thanks I am waiting for your response O my God! They Killed Kenny!

There are several utilities, some free, some not. I recommned a search like: freeware wipedisk zerofill HTH M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Rexx, I have Norton's SystemWorks and in Norton Utilities I can go to System Maintenance and then use Wipe Info. I can choose the Gov. wipe and drag any files or folders into it and they will be gone forever. Never to be recovered. If you have Norton Utilities you can use the Wipe and not have to erase the whole C drive. Ralph(jazzbo)

Norton Wipe Info isn't the only one that supposedly makes your sensitive data disappear forever without trace. Quoted from American College of Forensic Examiners's Cyber-Criminals & Data Sanitization: A number of products exist to wipe the contents of a disk, including KillDisk (Active), Disk Wiper (Paragon), BCWipe (Jetico), CyberScrub (CyberScrub), WipeDrive (WhiteCanyon Software), Ghost (Symantec), Wipe Info (Norton), and 12-Shredder (SuperGee). Most commercial versions of disk-wiping products comply with U.S. Department of Defense 5220.22-M, which defines data destruction standards for information below the top-secret security level.2 Some venders provide free versions of the software for non-commercial entities. The free versions generally perform a one-pass wipe process, while the commercial versions can perform multiple-pass wipes. i_XpUser

If you want to wipe it out to be factory and that no data can ever be recovered, purchase Micr0-Scope 11.00D or higher. Hell, the feds can't recover anything when this process is complete. Large hard drives may take over night for it does one bite at a time. Free software/downloads, forget it; you get what you pay for.