You may try going to the manufactures webpage and get a program that will write zeros to the drive like wd has ezdrive. Jimmy Hodges > I am looking for utilities that can guarantee me that the hard drive will be formatted. So that when you try to use a recover utility you will not be able to find anything on the hard drive. > > So far I have: > > 1. Normal format of C: and D: drives. > 2. Destroyed the partitions and re-created the partitions (different sizes). > 3. Normal format of C: and D: drives. > 4. Used a shareware formatting program that over wrote cluster by cluster. > 5. Re-created the partitions again. > 6. Installed NT on the system. > 7. Installed Windows 2000 on the system. > 8. Installed NT on the system. > 9. Installed NT on the system. > 10. Installed Windows 2000 on the system. > 11. Used PowerQuest's lost and found product (a DOS level utility), found multiple directories. Since it was a trial version unable to restore any of them. > > Any ideas whould be great, > > thanks > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to > Digest mode - visit our web site: > http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html