Wiping HDD

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I was thinking about wiping my hard disk drives and wanted to know if this would in any way cause the drive to go kaphoot for future use. I don't intend on selling off my pc but the feeling of having the hdd as good as new makes me very curious. Since i already have maybe three past virus infection with the hdd it sort of make me turn this way. So what do guys have to say about my confusion if i should indeed go at it or not? And will this process create any installation problem after i complete doing it all? Will this erase the bios as well?

You can format the HDD including wiping out all the existing partitions without any concerns. But do remember to backup the data that is required before doing this. AFAIK BIOS is not affected at all if you do this. You will require a Win XP (considering you are going to install XP) installation CD to format the drive again and create new partitions. Also it would be good if the file system you format in is NTFS. It is better that FAT

Thanks now i know that i don't have to worry about this at all so i'm going for it