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Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data



On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
> > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to
> > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of
> > financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc).
>
> Try http://dban.sourceforge.net/

I second this suggestion.  DBAN (short for Darik's Boot n' Nuke will wipe your 
hard disk to the point where only the NSA has any hope of recovering data.

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