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Offline bigguy

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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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« 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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