if you need a disc resque prog ill hand it over at messenger.i got alot
from a prog i have on old and corrupted hdd.s...pretty fun going back in
time from old hdds and comps ;]
but when it comes to data destroying, books are a lot safer: just
start a big fire and there is NO way to restore anything. But even a
real n00b can restore your personal data from a simply formatted HDD.
lvl 164 r0xx0rs in Pentagon can restore data from HDD's that have
been on fire and shattered into pieces.
That's what Derik's Boot and Nuke is for. For faster destruction
I'd suggest making some thermite and have the things
melted.
The best thing to do, however, is to have an encrypted virtual
drive with an encryption key that is 256bits long. That way when
the power is out, there is no more key in memory and it is
essentially random data.