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Offline BaldEagl

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Hard drive scubbing
« on: April 10, 2009, 04:00:45 PM »
I'm preparing a couple of old HD's to sell on ebay to try to get something out of them.  I'm scrubbing them using Active@ KillDisk (free version).  Do you think a single pass 0 write is sufficient or should I pop for the pro version and run the DoD standard triple pass 0/1/random write?  Or does anyone know of a free version that will run the triple pass standard?
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Re: Hard drive scubbing
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2009, 04:04:54 PM »
Did you store some critical and sensitive data on it?
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: Hard drive scubbing
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2009, 04:09:30 PM »
Just normal stuff but there may be a user name or password or something.  Frankly I don't remember but if there are they'd most likely be in the Outlook folders (you know, those "I forgot my user name and password" e-mails).

I guess there could also be information about my network.
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Offline Anodizer

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Re: Hard drive scubbing
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2009, 04:22:05 PM »
http://www.dban.org/


The best out there....  Makes a boot-able floppy, cd, dvd, or USB flash card..
Just type in AUTONUKE and it go over the entire drive backwards and forwards 3 times....

Hard Drive manufacturers make some tools that will let you do a low level format which is really all you need....
What you are doing is actually zero-ing out the hard drive, in essence..  Hard Drives store binary code(ones and zeroes).

Sorry if you already know this stuff...

But yeah, I'd recommend DBAN...  And if you have problems making a boot-able CD, Floppy, or USB memory stick, they
have a detailed tutorial on how to do this..  I think they actually have an ISO that will transfer directly to a CD/DVD..
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: Hard drive scubbing
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2009, 05:08:45 PM »
Quote from: Anodizer on April 10, 2009, 04:22:05 PM
http://www.dban.org/


The best out there....  Makes a boot-able floppy, cd, dvd, or USB flash card..
Just type in AUTONUKE and it go over the entire drive backwards and forwards 3 times....

Hard Drive manufacturers make some tools that will let you do a low level format which is really all you need....
What you are doing is actually zero-ing out the hard drive, in essence..  Hard Drives store binary code(ones and zeroes).

Sorry if you already know this stuff...

But yeah, I'd recommend DBAN...  And if you have problems making a boot-able CD, Floppy, or USB memory stick, they
have a detailed tutorial on how to do this..  I think they actually have an ISO that will transfer directly to a CD/DVD..

I think government requirement is 25 write over passes. But even 1 will stop anyone but a die hard high-tech hackers.
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