On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > I have a few older PCs that I want to wipe the drives very well and > donate. Googling, I see quite a few apps to do so. What are current > top recs and approaches any of you have done? I have always used dban for such a task: http://www.dban.org/ If you're REALLY concerned about data being left there, you'll probably want to physically destroy the hard drives. - Justin