Originally posted by PsYcHoSiS
You need skill and time to properly format a hard drive... Normal formatting won't cut it when the FBI find the drives.
You need to use ATLEAST 7-bit passphrases.. Where it rights random numbers over hard drive, 7 times.
when you reformmatt a harddrive, and delete something, all it does is delete the path to the data on ur drive. so the data you "deleted" remains on ur harddrive till something comes and overwrites it
so another simple way to do it is to create an rediculisly large file of something to take up ur entire drive overwriting all the empty but full of data space.
there a program which can do it for u but i cant remember on the top of my head.