hi i have a hard drive on my personal computer and would like to take that and put it into my server how can i erase the hard drive so it can be totally empty? thanks!
One easy way is to delete everything, then copy a whole bunch of rubbish to fill up that hard disk. Delete the rubbish and do a reformat.
You surely have a utlity on your server. Either linux or windows you should have a disk format utlity.
shred is what you want. It is installed by default on Ubuntu and easily available for other distros. It will write random data to the specified file/device and you can specify the exact number of iterations for it.
will it wipe it out totally just like buying a new hard drive from the store? thats the condition i need it in thanks
yeah... just pop in your Windows disk follow the instructions untill you get the the first yellow progress bar... It will say that its getting your drive ready for the Windows file system...All its doing is deleting everything from it... After thats done just remove the disk and stop the installation... You will have a blank disk