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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kokopelli" data-source="post: 93507">The two main techniques are zero filling, and 8 way wiping (depending on how positive you want to be about the wipe).  If you have an external drive you can boot from, you could use one of the two apps below to wipe the drive, then reinstall over the wiped drive. The other option would be to boot in taget disk mode and wipe it from a similar program in Windows or Linux.  (They are easy to find, just google for "zero fill wipe".)By wary of doing an 8-way wipe though.  It is very effective but also is very hard on the drive. I have had a drive fail before when doing an 8-way wipe.<a href="http://www.dekorte.com/Software/OSX/Shredder/" target="_blank">http://www.dekorte.com/Software/OSX/Shredder/</a><a href="http://www.thenextwave.com/burnHP.html" target="_blank">http://www.thenextwave.com/burnHP.html</a></blockquote>