Hi Edenney and welcome to PCWorld Communities.

Yes. All you are doing is simply reformatting the drive to allow space for something else. If you are looking to essentially destroy the hard drive to make it unusable, the consensus of the forum is that a drill or screw driver straight through the center of the hard drive will render the drive, and the hard disk, unusable.

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Very good question. There are as many answers as your imagination can come up with. But I have to ask, do you want to keep using the drive? If you don't care about it, and want to erase data for good, then open it up. Simply opening it can kill a drive. But just to be sure, you can touch the disk and play with it, smash it with a hammer, put it under water, bend all the pins, attach an explosive to it, etc.

If you want to keep using it though, then yeah, just find a good disk wiper.

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