I’ve been banging my head trying to google this, but does anyone know of a free utility that lets you completely wipe a SATA hard drive?
Autoclave won’t work, because it doesn’t support SATA.
A lot of Windows-based utilities only write over the free space on a hard drive, but to actually “securely erase” a hard drive you need a floppy-based utility. (Though, if I delete everything on a hard drive and then wipe it, it should get everything, shouldn’t it? Because everything on the hard drive would be “free space.”)