Hard Drive Wiper

VeNT

VeNT

VeNT

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ok, I need to erase some data from a few hard drives, 100% of the drive needs to be wiped, and it needs to be as hard to recover as posable without the use of a hammer!

any ideas?
 
sounds like someone has a problem with the security services. most manufacturers offer a low level format program. how hard to recover are we talking? average joe using norton recover thing or GCHQ using fancy magnetic tools
 
J.B said:
sounds like someone has a problem with the security services. most manufacturers offer a low level format program. how hard to recover are we talking? average joe using norton recover thing or GCHQ using fancy magnetic tools
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basicaly, these PCs are going to the insurance co, who hand them over to another co who take out whatevers left working and sell them on
mums an OT and has confodential information on it about her clients (ie medical stuff) and needs it to be protected against some guy running getdataback etc when they get the drives.
 
Killdisk, it's free and you can just put it on a floppy/cd/pen and restart the pc and it will overwrite all the sectors with zeros and makes it impossible to recover any data, only takes about 15mins as well.
 
Does the free version of Killdisk only do a zero write?
I'd rather use dban with the random seed prng stream or gutmann wipe over USDoD or zero writes.
Though having said that a multipass zero wipe would probs be sufficient for most people, but since dban is free, why not utilise its better methods of wiping imo.
 
Energize said:
Once the magnetic switches have changed postition theres no magic way of restoring them all to their previous position.
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you get "ghosting" of the prev magnetic image.
its better for it to be random a few times over it, or all 1s then all 0s then all 1s etc a few times.
 
If your mum has clients confidential medical records on this h/d, then both she and yourself owe a care of duty to those records. With that in mind the h/d in question should be completely destroyed, and not wiped, then passed on to a third party. I'm no legal-eagle, but i would lay odds on it that the data protection act would have something to say in this regard as well.
 
kitfit1 said:
If your mum has clients confidential medical records on this h/d, then both she and yourself owe a care of duty to those records. With that in mind the h/d in question should be completely destroyed, and not wiped, then passed on to a third party. I'm no legal-eagle, but i would lay odds on it that the data protection act would have something to say in this regard as well.
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not medical records, but contact and some other details (rehab stuff) but yeah, we're talking to the insurance co about how we can't give them the drives.
but I wanna wipe em anyway just to be sure.
 
Steganos Internet Anonym Pro 7 comes with a file shredder. can be set to over write 35 or more times rather than just once. just get the 30 day trial version. takes ages but does it properly
 
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