[ale] erasing a hard drive

[Robert]

>I've drawn a blank.  What is the name of that free software that I can 
>use to erase a hard drive?  It will run multiple overwrites?
>
>I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't want to 
>bother trying to figure out what's on them.
>

shred?

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