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| Thread ID: 64847 | 2005-12-30 18:19:00 | Please help find a relevant program | Rover (93) | Press F1 |
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| 416640 | 2005-12-30 18:19:00 | Hi eveyone, Here's why i'm asking this question. Not long ago i've purchased a program for partitioning the HD to run an extra OS (Acronis Disk Director Suite (www.acronis.com) if anyone's interested), done waht i wanted, everything's fine and so on... But then my friend asked me whether i know a program for restoring deleted data. I remembered that my Disk Director had this option for restoting lost or deleted partitions called Partition Recovey. So we decided to perform a little experiment - created a new pertition, added data to it and then... deleted it, tried to restore - and it worked, everything was back the way it was before! Before i thought this was possible only in spy movies. I've also read about programs that could restore formated volumes and individual files and folders. The problem is - i run a small ebusiness, and everything that's got to do with me or my money goes through my PC. I'm thinking of selling it soon and really don't want some young genious to find out my banking data and other stuff. So, can anyone recomend a program that could securely erase data from my PC without the possibility of it being restored or is the best way to toss my PC from a skyscraper, or better - pour some gas over it and make a nice barbecue? Thanks in advance for any insight :) |
Rover (93) | ||
| 416641 | 2005-12-30 18:40:00 | A very good one is found at www.killdisk.com used it | WhiteWolf4 (3713) | ||
| 416642 | 2005-12-30 19:46:00 | destory the harddrive if you want to garentee that the data is gone. | Metla (12) | ||
| 416643 | 2005-12-30 20:18:00 | Before you sell the computer, just remove the old hard drive and put in a brand new one. You may wish to keep the old drive as a backup record of your business. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 416644 | 2005-12-30 20:37:00 | Killdisk is ok, but even Spybot has a shredder that can spray the sectors and files area with over-writes of any number that you want to use for that hard drive . Just drag the files you want shredded into the page of Spybot's shredder and tell it how many times you want it shredded and click SHRED AWAY! The fact that the data is written with rather broad strokes by the head and then later erased by rather narrow 0's and 1's, won't always get rid of the shadow of the data that exists on both sides of the center of the data line . SpyBot takes care of that by making micro changes to the over-write and lets the heads get a little "out-of-alignment" if you follow me here, and totally over-write the splatter away from the central lane of data . It's kinda like writing with a spraypaint can . . . it goes on in broad lines of data . . . it needs to be erased by the head going slightly out of alignment to get all the overspray changed . That's one way the data recovery pros get to read what you thought was gone . . . it still exists just outside the normal data grooves! :nerd: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 416645 | 2005-12-30 22:39:00 | Dariks boot and nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) Free and fits onto a floppy disk... assuming you still have one :nerd: Has multiple deletion methods and can specify how many times to wipe the HDD I didnt know Peter Gutman (creator of guttman wiping method) was a professor at Auckland Uni :cool: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 416646 | 2005-12-30 22:49:00 | A good one there, bob_doe . . . Here in the US we are waiting to see if it is a felony to even have that program on the system . . or even to ever have downloaded it . We are (technically speaking) under marshal law (Homeland Security) here with the anti-terrorist thing going on, and the US Supreme court has allowed to stand as evidence that even possessing such an eraser program is guilt before the fact in law . The fact that certain "teeth" have been pulled on the law does not make it less of a crime to have, or ever have used that sort of device to clean a drive . Advice of that sort (to download such a program) might be construed as an accessory-before-the-fact in the US . The water's are very muddy here on this sort of thing right now . . . but who can say where it will go? Communication(s) ex-country are all subject to perusal by "authorities" and evidentiary by nature right now . |
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