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Offline bigguy

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Wiping Drives
« on: January 05, 2010, 06:03:31 PM »
What does everyone use for wiping their hard drives clean. ???
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 03:42:41 AM »
Secure wipe or just a reformat?
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2010, 06:10:26 AM »
This has always been great for me. Does an excellent job:

http://www.dban.org/
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 08:23:11 AM »
Fdisk and then format  O0
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 01:07:23 PM »
Your info could still be retrieved that way. Using dban there is no way that anything can be retrieved.
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 12:14:13 AM »
I don't have any info that is that important that it would need a PC geek to retrieve it   ;D
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 01:24:55 PM »
I repair and rebuild a lot of computers. So I get all sorts of drives in that are usually cleaned this way before I use them in a computer I am going to sell to someone else.
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 02:10:52 PM »
I don't resell any of my old HD, if I am not going to use them I destroy them  :)
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2010, 02:28:18 PM »
Do you use a magnet to do that or a hammer, lol. ???
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2010, 10:17:58 PM »
I normally smash it to bits using an axes  :)
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2010, 10:20:10 PM »
That actually sounds like fun, lol.  O0
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 03:43:46 AM »
Great fun  ;D O0
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2010, 09:36:08 PM »
I use killdisk, on a barts boot cd
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2010, 10:02:13 AM »
I haven't heard of that one yet. I have heard of Barts boot cd though.
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2010, 07:40:18 PM »
It's an old DOS based program that does 1 or 3 writes of 0s to the drive.  it's slow, but it leaves nothing.
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2010, 11:18:50 PM »
The one I use, uses the same wipe technique the RCMP does.
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2010, 12:59:23 AM »
I think I must play with a few of these   O0
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2010, 05:22:54 PM »
I usually use an old Knoppix Linux disk, and shred should still be included in the new versions, open a shell, and enter:
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shred -vzn 40 /dev/hda
If you want it to go through with random data more than 40 times just change the number.

Knoppix Linux
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Re: Wiping Drives
« Reply #18 on: March 01, 2010, 05:29:38 PM »
This is the one I use:

http://www.dban.org/
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