If you really want keep all the info on the HD only to yourself i.e. the info is very confidential:
Compress all the files on the HD first and encrypt that, then reformat the drive. That way it'll be fairly hard (I won't say impossible)to recover. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as "spam"-
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