Aye, today was the meet Jesus day for my hard drive:
Tried the above recommended DBAN once again but had no patience for burning the program to a CD, then do this and do that.
Instead I had slug of rum, pulled out a screw driver, opened the PC case, removed the 2 TB
Hard drive, kissed it goodbye and threw it in the deepest part of the canal behind my house.
(Here in Fort Lauderdale we live on canals like Venice. The crabs usually get left over veggies and seafood, today they got a hard drive. Bon appetite.)