Wiping IDE drive formats

[DGB]

Hi All,
Recently I posted a new thread regarding formatting IDE drives for the DPS PAR card. I have two used drives that seem to have a format that the PAR board rejects.  I need to know some way to wipe these drives clean of the format that is currently on them.  I have PCs that I can use to do this but they will probably replace the file system with FAT-32 or the newer NTFS.  I just want to remove what is there so the drives will appear to the PAR board as a new, never before formatted drive.  If anyone out there knows how to do this please give me some ideas here.  Thanks.

Dave
 

[DGB]

adolescent wrote:
I've used OnTrack DataEraser to clean a HD I was giving away.  It allows to write a pattern to the entire HD area  (I used 00 for simplicity).  It's a commercial product, but I'm sure you can find something similar like this:

Edit: fix link.

http://www.killdisk.com/

Thanks for the info and the URL.  Already been there and downloaded their free download version.  Hopefully this will work.