I've currently got a 149 GB hard drive that I've done many many things on. OS switches, dual boots, upgrades, and most recently windows vista. I ran a data recovery tool last night to recover a php script I deleted (and i got it back, which is amazing). Anyways, while running the tool, there's sooooooo much crap on the hard drive.. I just want to start over.
Partition magic would wipe the hard drive clean on XP, but I'm reading it's not compatible with vista.
I want to A) Wipe the disk clean. Nothing, nada, no OS even. B) Overwrite data with gibberish or whatever. C) Wipe that clean. D) Reinstall vista or XP
I've already got the good data backed up on an external hard drive, so I'm ready to go!
Are there any tools yet that can do this on vista?