On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
