On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <meldroc@frii.com> wrote:
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.
I read an interesting article about data recovery and the approaches
that can be used. Specialist places have ultra-fine read heads that
can catch ghost images towards the edge of tracks; which your head may
have missed. I think this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Without scaremongering, if the information you want to remove is of
such a critical nature that it must never be recovered no matter what
cost; you would have to destroy the drive.