Re: Cleansing W2K System for Resale
- From: "Wildwilly" <fonger101@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 13 Aug 2006 09:14:31 -0700
I have used Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) freeware from SourceForge. It
suppossedly erases the disk to DOD standards by writing random 1's and
0's to the entire disk several times. I have not run any recovery
software to test it.
Warning secure this floopy. If it is inadvertently inserted into the
floppy drive and the machine reboots your disk is nuked.
"Darik's Boot and Nuke http://dban.sourceforge.net/
DBAN is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks
of most computers. DBAN is open source and will work on DOS, Windows
3.1, Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Linux,
and also meets the DoD cleaning and sanitizing standard."
Sid Knee wrote:
PA20Pilot wrote:
Formaatting a disk doesn't erase or even overwrite old data that's been
on a disk. Many free softwares out there will easily bring all those
files back to life, even after a format. Overwriting the drive first is
the least you should consider doing. One of the easier ways to do that
is many copies of a giant file copied to your drive until you fill it
up.
Surely a low-level format (not a regular post-partitioning format)using
the hd manufacturer's disk utilities effectively overwrites any data
that's there? And it would be a lot easier.
.
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