any suggestions best tool to erase drive and best tool to encypt drive

[WINTERLORD]

probably different tools i think true crypt is best encryption tool but not certain on that. i am using windows 10 also would like to know of a good tool to securly erase hard drives reguler spindle ones

 

[CountMike]

DBAN https://dban.org/ is widely accepted as good enough for non high risk use. If your windows 10 is Pro or higher, consider Bitlocker built in.

 

[seagate_surfer]

WINTERLORD, this is also another way you can format your drive. Just takes a while.

 

[WINTERLORD]

seagate? i dont get it you mean sea tools?

would you guys consider the drive eraser on the cc cleaner as good for general purposes or dban just the go to tool. porpuse it to make sure any virus that has been on it in the pastr does not exist even after removal of virus. like oddly enough i have a 100mb of space that isnt even in a partition somehow was created at the begging of the drive that i cant seem to extend partition to to make it one partition

already cleaned it with a virus scanner though or is that space created because of bitlocker being on.

update 129mb of space to be exact

 

[seagate_surfer]

seagate? i dont get it you mean sea tools?

There is a link embedded in the word way. (http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203931en) You can also use Disk Wizard.

 

[WINTERLORD]

also what about true crypt does anyone use that anymore or is bitlocker just as good

 

[WINTERLORD]

does anyone know of bitlocker sets aside a small unpartitioned space in front of the drive am going to clear drive at some point when i have somthin to back the information up to but am kinda wonderin why my 2tb drive has 129mb of unpartitioned space. dont believe iv ever had a windows installation there