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Wiping Your Disk Drive Clean |
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Source: Linux.com - Posted by Bill Keys
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Everybody who owns a computer will someday need to dispose of a disk drive. Before you do, it is a good idea to cleanse the drive, so no one can read your sensitive information. Deleting files and reformatting is not sufficient; determined effort can still reveal data from a drive even after it appears to be gone. To do a more thorough job, I suggest using wipe.
It's a good security practice to completely formating a drive before getting rid of your old hard drives. This article looks at some best practices in deciding how-to erase a hard drive. It recommends that user use a software called wipe but, do you have any other favorite programs.
Read this full article at Linux.com
or if your really cheap take your disk drive into your local retailer and put it on the electromagnetometer that degauses the little white magnet striips that set off the door alarms when people steal things. Running it across there, flipping it over letting it get degaused while you pay for your new one would do the trick i think. Just thinking of the open source way of doing it.... :) |
