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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:35:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:38:11 AM EDT
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Tannerite! Seriously there are actually disc shreaders for HDD, DVDs and CDs that chew it up into very small bits. I'd do that then burn the bits. My wife works in INFOSEC and this is the only totally safe method of making sure data can't be retrieved. If the disc is in intact data can be retrieved and read. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:38:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:46:01 AM EDT
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FDISK. It comes with your OS.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:52:37 AM EDT
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.308 FMJ
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:56:12 AM EDT
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Virus. ARRRGGGGHH!
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:56:43 AM EDT
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Use a wipeing utility that wipes to DoD standards, if the utility allows you to do more than the 3 passes and you have a tinfoil urge, set the program to do like 20 passes (this might take a day depending on the hard drive size/speed).
BTW, Secret and above disks get wiped and where I work, we will go out with a 12 lb sledgehammer and smack the living shit out of them. (DoD, doesn't take any chances) Pretty tough to read data when the platters are smashed together and scratched to hell. But that still isn't enough, the disks are then sent to be litterally ground down into dust. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:58:22 AM EDT
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+1 run FDISK to wipe out the partition, then format. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:58:34 AM EDT
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Nope. Data cn be recovered if you only FDISK. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:02:32 AM EDT
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Honetsly I would recomend a three pound sledge hammer. No matter what you do there will be a chance to recover the data. Fdisk and a format are certainly not a secure way to permantly erase date, it will prevent anybody from returning the OS, to a useable system, but most of the files would still be intact. HDD's can be sound dirt cheap, destroy the disk, and slap an inexpensive 40GB drive into it.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:05:56 AM EDT
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Government IT regulations requires us to use "GDisk" but be prepared as it takes a long long time.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:17:33 AM EDT
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Darik's Boot and Nuke
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. dban.sourceforge.net |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:18:19 AM EDT
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FDISK DOES NOT wipe out the data. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:27:26 AM EDT
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I 2nd Active@'s Killdisk, the free version works good for most uses, but we have the pro version @ my work (a state govt agency) and have to run the damn thing like 9 times. Let it sit overnight.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:35:56 AM EDT
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we use Wipedrive. dod standards are supposedly met with 3 runs of this- can do more or less- overwrites with random characters. Use it on all retiring PC's. I used to put bullets thru them but could not keep up....
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:39:27 AM EDT
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Good point... Running one thing a few times, or running different programs a few times will probably increase your chances of taking off all your information. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:40:11 AM EDT
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Battery acid and a wire brush.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:40:34 AM EDT
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I've donated several PCs over the years and I always tell them they'll not be getting a hard drive with it. I normally put a pair of nails through the platter and toss it in the garbage.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:47:57 AM EDT
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Turn off "auto restore"...??? Thanks. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:31:58 AM EDT
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If you want to be really 'Secret Squirrel' about your HD, you can do like we did at my last agency:
We'd disassemble the HDs, removing the platters, then taking the platters to a smelter where we had to physically watch them be dropped into the sludge. As EODTECH2000 stated, some we'd sledgehammer the shit out of, but for the upper level stuff, it was off to the smelter. Damn I'm glad I don't have to do that shit anymore! 
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:35:16 AM EDT
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+1 |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:40:02 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:44:45 AM EDT
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An interesting article about data and old hard drives.
www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20030711a1.asp ETA: I my experience, if you don't wipe the drive several times with something like PGP's wipe feature or something similar, you are allowing data to get out. Evidence Eliminator has a special feature that makes even forensic recovery extremely difficult if not impossible. (Disclaimer: maybe 99.9% impossible anyway). |
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