There are fewer reasons to justify upgrading your old PC, apart from thegraphics card if you're a seriously gamer or the hard drive if you find you'rerunning out of space. Upgrading your hard drive is far easier than you wouldexpect. There are tools such as Paragon Disk Copy or Hard Disk Manager that willcopy the entire contents of your old drive across to your new drive. Simplyconnect the new drive and remove the old one, then reboot. Simple.

However, what happens if you want to get rid of your old slow hard drive?There's no point connecting it up as a slave drive as you'll probably find thatit slows down read/write access to your new and primary drive. You might want togive it to someone else or simply throw it away. Whatever option you choose, youneed to dispose of the contents. Even if you re-format the drive, there are manytools that will enable another user to retrieve the pre-formatted contents.

The solution is a disk wiping tool that will completely erase the diskcontents but also uses an algorithm to make sure that by wiping the contents,the old content can't be retrieved.

This is a tool you'll probably use very infrequently, but it could proveinvaluable if you want to make sure a partition or entire drive is completelywiped and contents are irradiated.

Note that this trial version will not actually wipe your disk. It will onlyshow the functionality involved.