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Best way to make sure data is gone before selling HDD?
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Down load System Mechanic 5 ( Install it. Under Protection there is something called drive scrub. You will need one floppy disk (It builds a bootable floppy). Follow the on screen directions. System Mechanic can be used for free for 30 days, without ANY limits. I LOVE this program!
Drive scrub meets gov't and military specs for safely destroying data prior to getting ride of your hd. and should work no matter what type of drive you have.
Drive scrub meets gov't and military specs for safely destroying data prior to getting ride of your hd. and should work no matter what type of drive you have.
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First shoot it with an M-16, then burn it to a crisp.
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user1kostya
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If you're technically inclined, you can do things manually via KNOPPIX.
Just boot into it, and then run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=64M count=10000000
This will zero out /dev/hda rather quickly. Of course, you need to be sure that /dev/hda is the drive you want.
Another linux program 'wipe' can do more elaborate overwrites.
Just boot into it, and then run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=64M count=10000000
This will zero out /dev/hda rather quickly. Of course, you need to be sure that /dev/hda is the drive you want.
Another linux program 'wipe' can do more elaborate overwrites.
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