app for properly blanking drives?

dtokez · 26 Aug 2009 at 10:23

hi all, i have the odd drive knocking around to sell.

i want to make sure that the data isnt recoverable and i can recall somebody talking about a app that overwrites every block on the drive but i cant seem to find what was said.

if anyone can piont me in the right direction i would be very happy

Paul11 · 26 Aug 2009 at 10:29

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18046465

ZXSpectrum · 26 Aug 2009 at 10:33

I have a full licence of Acronis Disk Cleanser.

SillyHeatsink · 26 Aug 2009 at 12:00

DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke). It's the only way to be sure.

sadly the site seems to be offline atm.

AbsenceJam · 26 Aug 2009 at 12:35

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14612917&postcount=2

Venares · 26 Aug 2009 at 14:57

SillyHeatsink said:
DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke). It's the only way to be sure.

sadly the site seems to be offline atm.

Wouldnt use anything else

I've uppped the latest version to my site as the main is down atm.
Both CD ISO and USB creator are in the rar.
DBAN 1.0.7

dtokez · 27 Aug 2009 at 00:06

thanks Venares, much apprieciated

PhillyDee · 27 Aug 2009 at 00:24

Get the Ultimate Boot CD. (UBCD).
It has loads of apps on it! Disk cleaners included.

goodl · 27 Aug 2009 at 11:52

secureerase does the trick

JonJ678 · 27 Aug 2009 at 12:21

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror

More than sufficient. If really paranoid you can use /dev/urandom instead or as well.

dtokez · 31 Aug 2009 at 02:11

JonJ678 said:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror

More than sufficient. If really paranoid you can use /dev/urandom instead or as well.

i have no idea what that means lol

i couldnt get on with that DBAN, it looked like it wanted to wipe all the drives on the machine?

thanks, im looking into the ultimate boot cd

looks promising

ntemples1 · 31 Aug 2009 at 09:49

Also might want to have a look at Active Killdisk Suite, just started using it and it's great!

dtokez · 1 Sep 2009 at 03:15

got the free version mate. shame its so limited

Noto · 1 Sep 2009 at 14:13

im not trolling... but in the past i used to get a magnet and run it over the plate thing and also just screw driver it... Im guessing by the responses thats not enough? or not 100% certain i guess.

hmmm not as fun too

lol i guess i could smash em up after drive cleaning

AbsenceJam · 1 Sep 2009 at 16:04

Noto said:
im not trolling... but in the past i used to get a magnet and run it over the plate thing and also just screw driver it... Im guessing by the responses thats not enough? or not 100% certain i guess.

hmmm not as fun too lol i guess i could smash em up after drive cleaning

You just need to write to every part of the drive and it's all gone...