Disk shredding

leaskovski

leaskovski

leaskovski

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I have been given my gramps old PC to dispose of and i am thinking of donating it to the local Oxfam shop.

Now before i give it away, i want to completely strip the pc of information as it may have some tasty stuff on it (he used to work for the goverment ;) if you know what i mean) and even though there shouldnt be anything there, i want to clean it anyway.

So does anyone know of any good shredding software that i can download? Oh and if its free, then the better it is! :)

Thanks

Edit: Oh and i forgot to mention that i will be connecting the disks via USB so i dont have to go diving into my PC, so it will need to be compatible with these.
 
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Charity shops aren't allowed to take electronic items these days mate.
Mainly because to sell them they have to be 100% sure that the item is safe to sell and then there are all the sales of goods acts as well.

Schools won't take anything on that's older than about a year.
Best bet is to find one of those organisations that collect PC hardware, strip down and then send re-builds around the world.
If you find the right one, they will take your machine away and then issue you with a certificate to say that all data has been correctly cleaned from your machine before anything was done with it.
 
hmm DBAN is based on Linux, and in Linux, USB drives show up as SCSI drives (/dev/sda etc), so it should work - although I've never tried it.

If it doesn't, you can do a basic write-zero's by booting any Linux livecd and doing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M and waiting for that to finish (could take hours over USB, make sure you have USB 2.0 setup and working)

Obviously check the drive you're wiping is the right one, I usually remove all drives except for the one(s) I want to wipe, to make sure.
 
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