On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:00:38 GMT, mcp6453
wrote:

Can someone recommend a
free or less expensive multi-wipe utility for hard drives, all space,
not just empty?

Darik's Boot and Nuke will do the job and it is open source:

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Make a boot floppy, then boot from it and choose the number of passes
(from one pass of zeros to 35 passes of random data). It will nuke
everything, including the MBR, partition tables, etc., but it does
take a while to run.

Someone else suggested Eraser which is fine but it runs under Windows.
I think DBAN is the best choice for your application.

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