Small capacity hard drives

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

just go to www.diskwipe.org and download the free version of the program. it will do DOD compliant wipes and wont cost you a penny. Now I would also buy this adpater from ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-USB-2-0-...item2c61c99b9d That way you can just plug it into your USB port and dont have to worry about tearing apart your computer. Also you can download this program if you like for free to test the drive for errors. www.hdtune.com I am thinking of buying the HDtune pro program just so I can error check and whipe all in the same program but I use both free programs as we speak to check and wipe all the drives I sell. Hope that helps.

One word of caution on that tester from e-bay. I bought the same one. The cables are great. I was testing my first hard drive with it. and the hard drive worked great. I was looking through all of the files and getting ready to format it when the power supply started making noise and gettting louder and ended with a loud pop! The power supply had fried. I cracked open the case and used one of the extra power cables to start over again, and guess what? The 500gb hard drive I decided to look at first was now fried. Cheap Chinese transformer blew up my $40 or so hard drive e-bay sale.

I still use the USB cable and it's buddies to test with, but reccommend going straight to the inside of the computer to get your power. I have a computer on the bench with the side off for this purpose all the time now.