There are a few commercial program that will effectively wipe a hard
drive, but I regularly use a freely available program called Autoclave.

You'll find more information about it here:

http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

Hope that helps,

Lloyd Hanson

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> data is retreivable by others later.  How can I do this?  I understand
> that the old way of low level formatting is not enough these day.
>
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