Data wiping and recovery

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Been asked to fully wipe some drives and I have used symantyec gdisk to wipe them.

I have done this with no problem but i thought as a full test i would try running some recovery software (if there is any) and see how well it has done the job.

Is there data recovery software or anything i need to know about trying to recover or anything in this area.

I have a feeling it isnt as simple as i am making out but shoot away.
 
If you mean to wipe a hdd totally and not just some files like norton gov wipe app, you grab maxtors powermax on floppy or cd iso and boot to it, you choose full low level format, this would have saved even Gary Glitters arse from jail as it puts HDD back to RAW (out of box) spec and can even fix bad sectors.

I have managed to fix HDD's that peeps never chkdsk or defragged and ended up with bad sectors at start of drives then at about 200KB it means XP can boot as boot sector is buggered, this wasnt only on maxtor HDD's it can be ran on any make/model of EIDE or SATA.
 
Well i work for a company that has to wipe all the hardrives they collect from certain places and companies, at the moment they havent got a full license for anything as we are just looking at different things to see whats quickest/easiest and best. I am presuming it has to have some sort of certificate tick or sommit to pass witht he contracts they have been given.

I will look into what you have said and probably have a play with it tomorrow.

I know how these things work, by writing over the whole drive in 0's or 1's or patterns, thus to destroy the patterns it is covering as these apparently can be read or interpretated. BUT after running gdisk over a drive once i was wondering if there was any way to check how well it has performed the task.
sooooooo
Is there any software that can scan over a disk and show me what it has picked up etc etc.

Cheers
 
Humey said:
If you mean to wipe a hdd totally and not just some files like norton gov wipe app, you grab maxtors powermax on floppy or cd iso and boot to it, you choose full low level format, this would have saved even Gary Glitters arse from jail as it puts HDD back to RAW (out of box) spec and can even fix bad sectors.

I have managed to fix HDD's that peeps never chkdsk or defragged and ended up with bad sectors at start of drives then at about 200KB it means XP can boot as boot sector is buggered, this wasnt only on maxtor HDD's it can be ran on any make/model of EIDE or SATA.
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Would that work on non-maxtor drives as well you think? I have a Seagate that's giving me bad sectors recently, it comes with SeaTools which can fix the bad clusters, but then when i use the drive again bad clusters appear elsewhere...
 
LOL, You two can fight it out, but yes I have already stated the maxtor app has nothing to do with maxtor HDD's it was 1st tool i know of to be around before other manu's made simular, I have used it on seagate and many other brands, thats not to say it will always work, the HDD could simply be past repairing.

The drive will not even have a file system ie fat16/32 or NTFS it will be raw by the end of it, even try running it a few times overnight when you wont miss time wasted, if drives larger size cause it can take a while if drive is really messed up.
 
Try these.... limited demos, but should answer what your query....

Active Partition Recovery
Active UNDELETE

I have paid up versions of these products and used them numerous times to recover data. Had a FAT32 Western Digital disk from a Win Me PC. Customer had had a full disk crash, so I started to recover the lost data. And it recovered HUGE amounts of stuff - some dating back to 2003!! Funniest thing is that this also recovered a lot of dodgy pr0n that his son had been looking at.... someone got into trouble over that one :)
 
cheers that sounds exactly what im after

(jokes about it sounding like i was after the porn may now start)
 
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