[dba-Tech] Wiping ALL data from a hard drive

Do you need to use the disks again? :-P

There are various "shredder" programs available... get one and install each
hard drive as a slave in your pc, then run the shredder on it. I've
formatted a drive with a Win 98SE boot disk, and put it in a pc running Win
2K, run scandisk, and all the data has appeared again. Format isn't as good
as it should be...


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Barrows [mailto:Jeff at outbaktech.com]
Sent: 25 May 2005 16:23
To: Dba-Tech
Subject: [dba-Tech] Wiping ALL data from a hard drive


I am looking for a quick, easy, inexpensive way to wipe ALL data from a hard
drive.  A local non-profit business has recently replaced their hardware and
wants to be sure that their data on the old machines is not retrievable by
anyone before they dispose of them.  I could format each hard drive, but I
was wondering if anyone here had a better idea.
 
TIA
 
 
Jeff Barrows
MCP, MCAD, MCSD
 
Outbak Technologies, LLC
Racine, WI
jeff at outbaktech.com
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