Data destruction and Images

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Hi,

I have been asked to "clean" up some laptops for a friend. I was wondering if I was to delete all local accounts and obvious user data, then create an image of the hard disk. Could I then run a program such as DBAN and then restore the image back on to the same disk leaving no user data behind?

My thinking is that ghost will only backup the "visable" data so restoring on to and DBAN'd drive should mean that volume is clean of any user data????

I hope this makes sense. Has anyone else tried this?

The reason for doing this is that I hope to do away with having to perform a reformat as the laptops have not got the original media :rolleyes:


Cheers,

ICE
 
the only way to completly make sure no private data is left behind is to completly wipe the disk and reinstall a clean install of windows
 
Vanilla_Ice said:
Period?

ICE
basicaly what you said, but I'd not bother with the taking an image if you don't want to restore the user data.
if you just want to reinstall the software then dban the bugger and reinstall the software.
 
If you have none of the install disks I'd recommend using drivergrabber to get all those nasty drivers you might need :). I always forget to do it before formatting stuff.
 
VeNT said:
basicaly what you said, but I'd not bother with the taking an image if you don't want to restore the user data.
if you just want to reinstall the software then dban the bugger and reinstall the software.

But I don't have all the correct media to install :(

JonRohan said:
If you have none of the install disks I'd recommend using drivergrabber to get all those nasty drivers you might need :). I always forget to do it before formatting stuff.

Never heard of this, but sounds useful. Will give it a whirl if I decide to reformat.

Has anyone else got any thoughts on my original idea?

Cheers,

ICE
 
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