I'm cannibalizing an old (2 yr old) hard drive from a laptop that had windows installed on it. I am going to use it in a futur build however I want to use it right now as an external hard drive. I've got the enclosure it's just how do you clean the disk ie delete everthing on it? Is it recommeded by deleting it like a normal file on a usb stick or does it need a special program to wipe it?
Its got a lot of useless junk and also it could help performance by 'marking' the bad bits of the hard drive. The kind of content I'll be using it for will be differrent as it will be for lossless music and movies instead of an OS.