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| Thread ID: 22507 | 2002-07-23 04:40:00 | selling pc | Hugh Jarse (1169) | Press F1 |
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| 64472 | 2002-07-24 02:42:00 | Sure, but if I was the boss of Chubb I wouldn't want it to be widely known that the comapny doesn't seem to have a policy on what to do with data on HDs. Staff, contractors et al have to go to a forum to find out what to do with sensitive data from a security company? At the least it doesn't inspire confidence in the company. | mark c (247) | ||
| 64473 | 2002-07-24 02:43:00 | true, true. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 64474 | 2002-07-24 02:57:00 | How's this for a concept? Don't delete the files, save nonsense files over the top of them. A large Word document filled with Qs. Copy something humongous like the swap file and a couple of medium sized files repeatedly (say ten copies). Maybe copy your Windows directory. Restart in safe mode and defrag. Delete some of the medium sized files. Maybe delete your duplicate Windows directory (not the real one). Restart in safe mode and defrag. Defragging must seriously trash any after-images as it physically moves things around on the disk. If someone ever finds it after this, then I'll give them a job. robo |
robo (205) | ||
| 64475 | 2002-07-24 05:03:00 | Buy another HD, trash the old one with an axe or hammer. Alternativelt Nortons System Works 2002 has good "Wipe Info" prog with a variety of wipe options. This should clean it up pretty well although I've never had occasion to use that "Wipe Info" facility. Woody |
Woody (710) | ||
| 64476 | 2002-07-24 08:35:00 | thanks for your concern man, I also do private installs of alarms and cctv thats why I keep info. Hugh |
Hugh Jarse (1169) | ||
| 64477 | 2002-07-24 09:13:00 | LLF the drive (low level format). this will zero fill your drive and all info will be gone... will not be able to recover. I used to work for this little company for experience. They get used computers from the government and reassemble them and send them out to primary schools. They zero fill all the drives because there are important data on the drives. |
boom23 (176) | ||
| 64478 | 2002-07-24 10:34:00 | it's surprising how many formats can be done, but yet the data is still there if you look hard enough. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 64479 | 2002-07-24 11:09:00 | wouldn't low level formating risk rendering the drive unuseable? | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 64480 | 2002-07-24 11:10:00 | Mark, I agree that company needs to brush its act up a bit but I'd also give Hugh some credit for taking the initiative and asking what he should do. How many of his colleagues are so consciencious? We had an alarm system put in earlier this year and a few weeks later had a phone call from a total stranger asing if we had a system by XX Alarms. It put the frighteners in us because he had picked the installer's diary up off the road about 3km from us (several weeks later, remember?). He got our name and phone number out of the book and we were very relieved that our codes weren't in there as well. The installer had lost the book off the top of his van and was very glad to get it back. Hopefully he won't be so careless in future. |
Susan B (19) | ||
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