[Airescape]

The Hard drive in my current PC is running windows XP, I want to erase everything on it so I can put it in my new computer as a slave drive, just for storing stuff. How should I go about doing this? Do I need to write 0's to it? If so, how? I tried google. :(

Also, is there a secure way to do this multiple times efficiently to protect sensitive data in the even that I throw it out and get a new hard drive instead?

Thanks.

[hAvAAck]

if you want to format it, format it
then change the jumpers on it to be a slave

[chrismorris730]

As for securely wiping all your data (For selling, lets say) there is a program called Window Washer that I have seen destroys and covers data very well. It's relatively cheap ( i assume....i have no idea what software like this normally goes for).

http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consume...fd52199d389f06

here it says it's about 30 USD. I have no idea where you live (i don't recognize the flag) so i'm not sure if you can get it...