wipe hd clean

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Morey G.

Hello to all. I'm sure this question had been asked a million times and I
am sorry to be repetitive, but the state of the art continually changes and
I want to be up to speed.
I am taking the HD out of my work-issue laptop and giving it to a
colleague. I would like to make sure it is CLEAN and wiped when I hand it
to him.
Any links, advice, suggestions, etc will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all in advance for any and all help and warm regards,
Morey G
 
Hello to all. I'm sure this question had been asked a million times and I
am sorry to be repetitive, but the state of the art continually changes and
I want to be up to speed.
I am taking the HD out of my work-issue laptop and giving it to a
colleague. I would like to make sure it is CLEAN and wiped when I hand it
to him.
Any links, advice, suggestions, etc will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all in advance for any and all help and warm regards,
Morey G
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Dban

http://dban.sourceforge.net/
 
Al said:
one pass with any format utility will put your data beyond the access
of anyone put the most sophisticated spooks that choose to spend lots
of time and money on your disk.




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a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m

Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.
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One pass will NOT put your data beyond the access of anyone, Norton
System works will unformat a harddrive that has been formatted so I
would go back to previous responses
 
one pass with any format utility will put your data beyond the access
of anyone put the most sophisticated spooks that choose to spend lots
of time and money on your disk.
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Makes a lot more sense to use a free security wipe tho,
because its too easy to stuff up what format utility is used
and use one that can have the format recovered from.
 
Previously Al Dykes said:
one pass with any format utility will put your data beyond the access
of anyone put the most sophisticated spooks that choose to spend lots
of time and money on your disk.
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As long as that is not MS "format" ;-)==)

Arno
 
One pass will NOT put your data beyond the access of anyone, Norton
System works will unformat a harddrive that has been formatted so I
would go back to previous responses
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Impossible. But note that MS "fomrat" does only do a format for
floppies. For HDDs it is just filesystem-creation and not a
formatting utility.

Arno
 
And all of the the above posts, ladies and gentlemen, are exactly why I
posted.

Thanks to you all, I really appreciate the guidance.
Morey
 
Rod said:
Makes a lot more sense to use a free security wipe tho,
because its too easy to stuff up what format utility is used
and use one that can have the format recovered from.
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I used Heidi-Eraser and Killdisk to wipe a old Disk."Getdataback" could
recover half of the Files,wiped with Heidi,but had no chance with
killdisk.So,if you want to make sure,dont rely on "free stuff".Try at
least a recovery Tool for being ABSOLUTLY SURE.
 
Previously Sayso Takewashi said:
Rod said:
"Al Dykes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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[...]
I used Heidi-Eraser and Killdisk to wipe a old Disk."Getdataback" could
recover half of the Files,wiped with Heidi,but had no chance with
killdisk.So,if you want to make sure,dont rely on "free stuff".Try at
least a recovery Tool for being ABSOLUTLY SURE.
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Free stuff is o.k., as long as it has a professional quality level
and you know what you are doing.

Boot from a knoppix CD and do

dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/<your target drive tio be erased>

There is nothing left to be recoverd afterwards.

Arno
 
Sayso Takewashi said:
I used Heidi-Eraser and Killdisk to wipe a old Disk."Getdataback" could
recover half of the Files,wiped with Heidi,but had no chance with
killdisk.So,if you want to make sure,dont rely on "free stuff".Try at
least a recovery Tool for being ABSOLUTLY SURE.
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Heidi Eraser does not claim to wipe disks, it erases files and free space.
 
Morey G. said:
Hello to all. I'm sure this question had been asked a million times and I
am sorry to be repetitive, but the state of the art continually changes and
I want to be up to speed.
I am taking the HD out of my work-issue laptop and giving it to a
colleague. I would like to make sure it is CLEAN and wiped when I hand it
to him.
Any links, advice, suggestions, etc will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all in advance for any and all help and warm regards,
Morey G
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http://www.data-recovery-hub.com/data-recovery-software-guide/wipers.php
 
Previously chrisv said:
zero wrote:

Another good reason to always build a floppy into your machine, as I
have always advocated.
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Indeed! And until booting from memory-stick works and works the same
way everywhere, the floppy is important.

Arno
 
I've got Knoppix but didn't know of this BartPE. Looks interesting.
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Yeah, a bit easier than knoppix if you dont know anything about linux.

Quite handy for setting up a system on the lan when you
havent got the nic drivers for the system yet etc. Very
easy to boot PE so you can move the drivers across the
lan onto that machine and then install them in the OS etc.
 
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