Hi Stuart I'm Chris and I'm new to the LUG, so you won't know me. In regard to your sister's Windows hard drive, securely deleting the drive involves more than just wiping (or reformatting) the drive, since all this does is remove the partition and file tables, leaving the original files potentially recoverable.
In the past I've used "Darik's Boot and Nuke" program (www.dban.org), which downloads as a 10MB disc image and runs like a mini-operating system with one sole purpose: to destroy all data. I never had any state secrets or criminal activity to cover-up, but it was an interesting experiment just to see how it worked. Perhaps we could try this? Chris S. On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:05 +0100, Stuart Lonnen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:33 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote: > > No, he meant the one on 5th October, the mail got stuck in the mail > > queue. Sorry about any confusion! > > Oops! my mistake then. Sorry :( > > > Feel free to discuss the next one now if you like though! I can't make > > that one, I'll be on my honeymoon! > > Blimey, that's an extreme length to go to just to avoid a LUG > meeting.....err I mean congratulations Mark. :D > > I may be able to bring an old windows PC to the next LUG meeting - It's > my sisters and she wants to make sure all data on the hard drive is > securely deleted, would anyone be interested in (or indeed know how to > do/test) this ? > > I was also wondering if anyone wanted to do a talk about something, I > recall a talk about how websites and in particular the BBC's iPlayer > site was set-up/managed that I found really interesting even if I didn't > understand it completely. If not that's ok, I enjoy just meeting up and > chatting about stuff but would like hear about how others use Linux and > FOSS as well. > > > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 > 1450 > > Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 > 1LG > > Regards > Stuart L. > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
