Wipe or Fdisk?

[Herakles]

Which way is the best for clearing an harddisk?

[erunestian]

What do you mean by clearing?

If you just want it empty, do a quick format. In the command prompt write: "format [drive letter]: /q"

If you want to erase the data so it's harder for someone to recover it, do "format [drive letter]:"

Hope it helps...

[Chewie]

If you're selling or dumping the drive then secure-wipe it.
If not, just format.

[Herakles]

well, I am just researching which one is the hardest way to recover files

[peat moss]

well, I am just researching which one is the hardest way to recover files

Read Chewie's post again friend , which one ? :) Are you donating to the school or church or just a buddie ?

[Brenya]

Whenever I do a clean installation of an OS, I habitually erase the entire drive with Active Killdisk Hard Drive Eraser (the free version, of course). I just do a 'one-pass zero' erase, where the program just changes every bite to a zero. I'm an amateur, so given my limited knowledge of technology i think this is good enough.

You can download the .iso of Active Killdisk here (http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm) if you are interested.

[Herakles]

well, I am just researching which one is the hardest way to recover files

Read Chewie's post again friend , which one ? :) Are you donating to the school or church or just a buddie ?

I am just a buddie :)