Author Topic: Wiping Drives (Read 2787 times)

bigguy · « **on:** January 05, 2010, 06:03:31 PM »

What does everyone use for wiping their hard drives clean.

Nesa · « **Reply #1 on:** January 06, 2010, 03:42:41 AM »

Secure wipe or just a reformat?

bigguy · « **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/

DirtRider · « **Reply #3 on:** January 06, 2010, 08:23:11 AM »

Fdisk and then format

bigguy · « **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.

DirtRider · « **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

bigguy · « **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.

DirtRider · « **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

bigguy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2010, 02:28:18 PM »

Do you use a magnet to do that or a hammer, lol.

DirtRider · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2010, 10:17:58 PM »

I normally smash it to bits using an axes

bigguy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2010, 10:20:10 PM »

That actually sounds like fun, lol.

DirtRider · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2010, 03:43:46 AM »

Great fun

BluenoseJake · « **Reply #12 on:** January 09, 2010, 09:36:08 PM »

I use killdisk, on a barts boot cd

bigguy · « **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.

BluenoseJake · « **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.

bigguy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 10, 2010, 11:18:50 PM »

The one I use, uses the same wipe technique the RCMP does.

DirtRider · « **Reply #16 on:** January 11, 2010, 12:59:23 AM »

I think I must play with a few of these

billyevil · « **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

bigguy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 01, 2010, 05:29:38 PM »

This is the one I use:

http://www.dban.org/

ZeroFade · « **Reply #19 on:** November 14, 2010, 05:19:53 PM »

I use to use wipedrive, but haven't used it since I got my new pc.

http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php

Yoshi2889 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 03, 2011, 10:27:05 AM »

I just reinstall Windows XD

But really. I use...ehm, what was that tool...Swissknife!
http://www.compuapps.com/