fully erase HDD

shaffaaf27 · 4 May 2008 at 14:11

hi, i am going to be selling an old HDD to someone, but i want to fully erase it so that even recovery software cannot recover the data, as i had a lot of financial data on it.

is there a way to do this?

Cew27 · 4 May 2008 at 14:18

try downloading daraks boot and nuke

Fuzz · 5 May 2008 at 09:40

financial data

Cutshaw · 5 May 2008 at 09:44

Yeah. I have to erase some faptastic data, myself. I might check that out.

Cew27 · 5 May 2008 at 10:14

haha faptastic nuke'in

semi-pro waster · 5 May 2008 at 10:15

DBAN as Cew27 suggests is probably the best option, you can get it from here and it gives you multiple options for how many passes you want to do, after a few passes it is largely academic but the US DoD wipe does 8x I think and it should be safe. If anyone is that willing to look for your data then I'd suggest physically destroying the drive and heading for a non-extraditable country post haste.

Cew27 · 5 May 2008 at 10:18

if you are reaaly realy paranoid dban it twice at 8 passes this should ensure that not ever forensics can recovery it (if memory serves me right for magnetic storage media such as hdd's 5 layers can be recovered so 6+ passes to be safe)

matt100 · 5 May 2008 at 10:32

http://www.cezeo.com/products/disk-redactor/

fills your hard drive with 0's

once should be enough but do it a couple of times if you're mega paranoid.

EVILCOSMOS · 5 May 2008 at 10:39

I used DBAN's autonuke once on a 74GB Raptor drive I sold and it took ages, so be warned it may take a while, but it does the job properly.

shaffaaf27 · 5 May 2008 at 12:24

thnaks guys....yeah..finalcial data

AHEM**COUGHtorrentsCOUGH**AHEM

helmutcheese · 5 May 2008 at 13:14

If you have Gay Pr0n you dont want your family to find, you simply can run likes of Maxtors Powermax/Maxblaster or any other equiv from HDD vendors inc WD.

Once you do a Low Level Format your clean, do it more than once if your paranoid.

shaffaaf27 · 5 May 2008 at 13:33

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WillSpengler · 5 May 2008 at 13:39

shaffaaf27 · 5 May 2008 at 13:50

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milkinc13 · 5 May 2008 at 13:51

wouldn't an extremely powerful magnet also do the job?

matt100 · 5 May 2008 at 13:57

milkinc13 said:
wouldn't an extremely powerful magnet also do the job?

like on LOST? bit extreme that brother.

shaffaaf27 · 5 May 2008 at 13:58

and destory the actuall HDD
:O

i need to sell, not kill

helmutcheese · 5 May 2008 at 14:00

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Grab that, and choose 1 of the many APP's to Erase the evidence of your Goat.se habit.

Cyber-Mav · 6 May 2008 at 00:36

these guys are gonna drive you crazy with complex software and tools to use.

use this pal:
http://hdtune.com/

get the trial version of hdtune pro and you can do a simple 7 pass DoD 5220.22-M erase on the drive and it will be IMPOSSIBLE to recover the data on that drive.

simple and department of defence level effective.

shaffaaf27 · 6 May 2008 at 00:44

i cant with partitons.... how do i get rid of them?

i have two partitons

and nuke dont work for me

probably caus of partitons