Wiping a hard drive of ALL personal info?

Andy!!

Im selling a netbook tomorrow to further finance my build. I formatted my hard drive with a clean install of windows but am still paranoid if the buyer is dodgy he will still be able to glean private info like passwords from it. Is there any freeware out there that will completely wipe the drive of any of that kind of info?

Darik's Boot and Nuke

briano.de.rhino

Piriform have good software.
CCleaner
Theres an option to erase up to 34 times. which might take days.
Only truly effective way is to burn your harddrive and smash it with a hammer.

Tea_Bag

RUCKING FETARD

http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough-part-2-this-time-with-screenshots

briano.de.rhino

My friend formatted his hard drive and with Recuva from Piriform, he recovered many many video and picture files. sure some were broken or only half there but nonetheless. Some of them he had deleted initially years ago.

MarkR

Be careful what you wipe. Does your netbook have a installation disk? If you don't be very sure you're not deleting the recovery partition.