Any recommendations for software that wipes your PC hard drive before I reboot?

I'm trying to clean up my OPESC mistakes as best I can, what software can I use that permanently wipes a PC's hard drive by writing to files and empty ("deleted") disc locations so that data is not recoverable by the police?


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[3 Points] ziz1:

To wipe out your entire disk (operating system, files, unused space - everything), you can boot a dban CD:

http://www.dban.org/


[1 Points] None:

Just boot to tails or any linux distro, go to a terminal and do sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda. Depending on the size of your drive, this will probably take 24 hours. Make sure the device is plugged in and cool. After that you can do sudo badblocks -c 1024 -wsvt random /dev/sda to make sure you don't have any errors.


[-1 Points] The_Grid_Is_Up:

Just destroy it, and get a new PC if you're that serious.