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| Thread ID: 82498 | 2007-08-29 09:35:00 | Software to clean hard drive of data | PCpunter (12751) | Press F1 |
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| 585939 | 2007-08-29 09:35:00 | Can some one please advise of a reliable piece of software to clean harddrives of data before I dispose of my old computers. Thanks | PCpunter (12751) | ||
| 585940 | 2007-08-29 10:10:00 | There is probably lots of good software for that. But I went to my HD manufacturers site and downloaded their software for overwriting HD data. That was Western Digital, but I guess they all have it available. | Grimy (3041) | ||
| 585941 | 2007-08-29 10:28:00 | Spybot-SD has that secure shredder tool I use sometimes but it might not be powerful enough for you. Google will throw up some good, free software. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 585942 | 2007-08-29 10:28:00 | Do you mean take the computers to the dump after erasing the HDD's completely or cleaning off user data and then selling them on as going units? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 585943 | 2007-08-29 10:47:00 | Just encrypt the hard drive with TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) and there will be no possible way of getting the data back. Tools that just write binary 1's to every bit of data aren't good enough, as there are programs out there that can detect the changed binary bits and reconstruct the harddrive. TrueCrypt is a pretty awesome tool. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 585944 | 2007-08-29 11:38:00 | Dariks boot n nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 585945 | 2007-08-29 14:45:00 | Dariks boot n nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) +1 |
GhostBuster (10141) | ||
| 585946 | 2007-08-29 21:53:00 | www.killdisk.com | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 585947 | 2007-08-30 04:48:00 | :badpc:??? | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 585948 | 2007-08-30 21:40:00 | Spybot-SD has that secure shredder tool I use sometimes but it might not be powerful enough for you. Google will throw up some good, free software. I read that SpyBot can shred beyond the ability of the NIS to find anything at all. Five passes (default) are supposed to be more than enough to do it, but you can roll up the number if you like to about as far as you can stand. |
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