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| 704661 | 2008-09-12 08:56:00 | Hi, have a old PC gonna be disposed, 1.2GB 200MHz system. I can hook that HDD in my current desktop PC and nuke. What is a good software and how long does it take and how many times do I do it? Cheers. :) |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 704662 | 2008-09-12 09:02:00 | ccleaner will, just go into options / settings and change it to gutmann (35 times) I think on the spare 20 gb here it was going to take 12 hrs lol, on the above option Only thing is you would have to delete all the files on the hdd, for ccleaner to securely delete them Or use another program that uses this Eraser (www.heidi.ie) Only thing is, depending on how big the hdd is, if you select this option it can take forever. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 704663 | 2008-09-12 09:18:00 | Depends how "gone" you want - you can always slave the drive to another PC, XP for example go into Control Panel/Admin tools/Computer Management/ Under storage/ Disk management, select the drive and tell it to delete the partition. For all intense purposes its gone - someone with the right software may be able to recover the data, but you will have to know what you are doing. There are also many programs that you can freely download to nuke the drive. Wanna be 100% sure ? remove the drive, disassemble it and smash the platters into small bits- drive is knackered, but no chance of recovery. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 704664 | 2008-09-12 09:45:00 | For a permanent removal of files on a hard drive, I recommend Dariks Boot And Nuke (http://www.dban.org/) Be careful that you don't have another hard drive already plugged in. :blush: For a 1.2 Gigabyte hard drive, it should take less than an hour or two. |
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