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| Thread ID: 66131 | 2006-02-12 07:54:00 | Wiping an old hard disk's contents | barryk (8612) | Press F1 |
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| 429427 | 2006-02-12 07:54:00 | Is it possible to wipe an old hard disk's data? I read something that said there was Norton's WipeDisk program available to do this job but I don't want to pay too much $ to do this. Are there other programs that can do this job? The old hard disk is awaiting a clean before it gets retired. Thanks in advance, Barry. |
barryk (8612) | ||
| 429428 | 2006-02-12 08:09:00 | If you're not worried about how many passes it does, i use dbans autonuke. you'll find it here (software.newsforge.com) | Phil B (648) | ||
| 429429 | 2006-02-12 08:23:00 | all the info you need and more.... pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 429430 | 2006-02-12 08:43:00 | Sledgehammer ;) | Prescott (11) | ||
| 429431 | 2006-02-12 08:54:00 | If you're going to retire the drive why don't you just do as Prescott says, if you're worried about data on it being recovered. If not why not just biff it. | mark c (247) | ||
| 429432 | 2006-02-12 08:57:00 | personally i think a wood splitter would do it better. but i thought you lot were technical | Phil B (648) | ||
| 429433 | 2006-02-12 09:02:00 | Wood splitter /log splitter is a good idea. Got a friend who's got one that does 31 tonnes and we've all being thinking of things we could do with it but hadn't occurred to me it would be a good pulveriser of old HDs too. :D | mark c (247) | ||
| 429434 | 2006-02-12 10:04:00 | Basically most algorithms essentially goes over every sector several times, chances of recovering any data are nearly zero. No one is going to get the data unless they have a lot of time and are very dedicated. And I mean, very dedicated. As someone said before use: http://dban.sourceforge.net |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 429435 | 2006-02-12 11:10:00 | Basically most algorithms essentially goes over every sector several times, chances of recovering any data are nearly zero. No one is going to get the data unless they have a lot of time and are very dedicated. And I mean, very dedicated. As someone said before use: http://dban.sourceforge.net I believe he want's to reuse the drive (clean), not get data from it :thumbs: |
zahmad (8963) | ||
| 429436 | 2006-02-14 06:53:00 | we have the best method ever. We use a blow torch to melt it into a pot we then put it through a metal destructor and then radiate it with x rays This does seem to do the trick |
ojos (3168) | ||
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