Wiping hard drive clean
Hi:
Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.) that will actually wipe your hard drive clean not just erase the pointers so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk is not retrievable by anyone no matter how good of a hacker they may be ? Will doing a reformat/re-install of Windows (98) accomplish this ? If so, how would one do it ? From an Emergency BackUP CD ? A system floppy ? Thank you DaleB |
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 04:56:02 -0700, "DaleB" wrote:
Hi: Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.) that will actually wipe your hard drive clean not just erase the pointers so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk is not retrievable by anyone no matter how good of a hacker they may be ? This option is an option of many HDD manufacturers' utilities (like Data Lifeguard for Western Digital, etc). See also: "Erase Sensitive Files and Data from your PC" http://www.help2go.com/article161.html Will doing a reformat/re-install of Windows (98) accomplish this ? No. Most of the data can be retrieved even after repartitioning and reformatting the HDD. If so, how would one do it ? From an Emergency BackUP CD ? No. A system floppy ? If to keep the erasing DOS-program on this diskette (like the programs of the HDD manufacturers). -- Mikhail Zhilin MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== |
"DaleB" wrote:
Hi: Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.) that will actually wipe your hard drive clean not just erase the pointers so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk is not retrievable by anyone no matter how good of a hacker they may be ? Will doing a reformat/re-install of Windows (98) accomplish this ? If so, how would one do it ? From an Emergency BackUP CD ? A system floppy ? Thank you DaleB Try CopyWipe from www.bootitng.com to wipe the drive. However that still will not prevent a determined person with the necessary equipment and resources from recovering the data. Data can still be reconstructed even from drives that have been overwritten multiple times. Government security experts say that the only way to *guarantee* that the hard drive data content cannot be recovered is to physically destroy the drive by crushing and shredding it. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP http://aumha.org/alex.htm |
Thank you for the info !
"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 04:56:02 -0700, "DaleB" wrote: Hi: Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.) that will actually wipe your hard drive clean not just erase the pointers so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk is not retrievable by anyone no matter how good of a hacker they may be ? This option is an option of many HDD manufacturers' utilities (like Data Lifeguard for Western Digital, etc). See also: "Erase Sensitive Files and Data from your PC" http://www.help2go.com/article161.html Will doing a reformat/re-install of Windows (98) accomplish this ? No. Most of the data can be retrieved even after repartitioning and reformatting the HDD. If so, how would one do it ? From an Emergency BackUP CD ? No. A system floppy ? If to keep the erasing DOS-program on this diskette (like the programs of the HDD manufacturers). -- Mikhail Zhilin MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== |
Thank you for the advice !
"Ron Martell" wrote: "DaleB" wrote: Hi: Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.) that will actually wipe your hard drive clean not just erase the pointers so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk is not retrievable by anyone no matter how good of a hacker they may be ? Will doing a reformat/re-install of Windows (98) accomplish this ? If so, how would one do it ? From an Emergency BackUP CD ? A system floppy ? Thank you DaleB Try CopyWipe from www.bootitng.com to wipe the drive. However that still will not prevent a determined person with the necessary equipment and resources from recovering the data. Data can still be reconstructed even from drives that have been overwritten multiple times. Government security experts say that the only way to *guarantee* that the hard drive data content cannot be recovered is to physically destroy the drive by crushing and shredding it. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP http://aumha.org/alex.htm |
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