Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition
On 9/22/2012 12:56 PM, Neal Murphy wrote:
Yes. The command writes zeroes to every block on the drive. Recovering
the data would require dismantling the drive and using specialized
hardware to read the edges of each track (to find residual data). It's
not a cryptographically secure erase, but for the OP's purpose, it
should suffice.
Ah, good to know. I've never used dd as far as I can remember. So that
is another way to achieve the same objective.
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