Which are some effective data erasure software?

[stacysmith1256]

I am willing to resell my hard disk drive and I have manually deleted the stored data.
However,I am being told by my friends that a data recovery software can recover the deleted data unless data is erased by a professional data erasure software.
Is it true?
If yes, then please suggest a reasonably priced data erasure software.

 

[Hellfire13]

Probably the best software out there... https://dban.org/

 

[Guest]

See this for more suggestions:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2285797/file-shredding-programs-work.html

CCleaner also has a Drive Wiper component, with various presets for the number of random data overwrites you want to apply (more overwrites increases level of data destruction but also increases how long it takes and wear-and-tear on the drive itself, so I reckon 3 passes is sensible and enough to render data irrecoverable by any normal means using recovery software.

 

[seagate_surfer]

stacysmith1256 , a low level format will do the job. It just takes a long time.