Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How to Securely Delete a Hard Drive

The new site is up and running! I transfered over all the previous tutorials/articles, and added some new ones.

Check out the newest tutorial on the new site. The big launch (nameserver updating) should occur within a week or so. I'd still love some feedback/suggestions, as well as any and all problems encountered with the new site:

Securely Delete a Hard Drive

9 comments:

  1. This could be really usefull, thanks for the heads up !

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  2. Good link, I could need to use this if I ever sell a HDD..

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  3. This is really good information. Putting stuff in the recycling bin doesn't remove it.forever.

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  4. I have a disc called DBAN that does it a straightforward way

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  5. Electric addict: I used to have a cd called Boot n Nuke or something similar. You should just make sure that it's being overwritten with random data, since it's harder to recover data than if it was overwritten with 0's

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  6. Nothing to hide or be ashamed of (well nothing *much* to be ashamed of ; I ) here.

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  7. dude your website seems slow?

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  8. Alan: Yea thats one of the problems I have with the current host. I'm working out the logistics of getting a better host, so it shouldn't be slow for too long :D

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  9. I guess I one of the "tinfoil hat" people, but I'd rather smash a harddrive to bits than try to securely delete everything.
    I've seen so many thing that are possible in IT. I can't really trust these things very far.

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