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

I read a book by a computer forensics guy (people who're called in by police
to get what they can off disks as evidence). He scoffed at format as a
method of wiping data. If the data is really sensitive a big hammer is the
best way - seriously.

--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Wiping ALL data from a hard drive
Date: 25/05/05 15:29

>
> 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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