Christopher Sandles wrote:
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?
In my experience DBAN takes forever.
The command 'shred' in Linux is a lot faster, and can also do a
partition rather than a whole disk.
Phil
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