I have heard of severaol ways to do this. The first is use a program 
called zap_hdd which will erase the entire partition table at the click 
of enter. Then follow up with the dos version of format /0 (I believe) 
which will format the drive and write the drive to all 0's, the other is 
a program (also windows based) that will rewrite over all deleted info 
immediately upon evecuting, I think it called erasue or unerase. The use 
of acid will not work, better to open drive up, and place magnet on discs!

mike hoy wrote:

> Hi
>
> If somebody wanted to completely destroy a harddrive or flash drive so 
> that no data whatsoever could ever be extracted from it how would they 
> go about doing that?
>
> example:
>
> your an owner of a small company with sensitive information on your 
> hardrive and you can no longer use the drive because it's broken.
>
> can you soak it in acid or break it into bits and pieces..
>
> is there anyway to do this?
>
> My emphasis here is on absolute destruction of the hard disk or flash 
> disk or zip disk or even a cdrom.
>
> If the hardrive were still useable would a format be sufficient to 
> wipe the data?
>
> I've heard that formatting the hdd's don't actually erase all of the 
> data.
>
> mike h
>
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