Wipe that drive

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Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I hooked
it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours writing
1 and 0's and making floppies.

 

[jad]

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after a format, remove the partitions very few average people would
be able to recover that data......if your holding the schematics to a
new cold fusion energy device on the drive, don't sell it, otherwise
let the paranoia go.

"AndrewJ" <andrewj@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:modoh0tpthhnbhpfe8a250uhs0ucoedc2c@4ax.com...
> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I
hooked
> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours
writing
> 1 and 0's and making floppies.

 

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Gateway has a utility called GWSCAN that will write zero's to most drives in
a matter of 20 minutes.

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"AndrewJ" <andrewj@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:modoh0tpthhnbhpfe8a250uhs0ucoedc2c@4ax.com...
> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I hooked
> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours writing
> 1 and 0's and making floppies.

 

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AndrewJ wrote:
> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I hooked
> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours writing
> 1 and 0's and making floppies.

Then you didn't wipe your drive. Formatting it only writes where the
sectors are are going to be arrainged and what areas of the drive will
be listed as "empty." Even though you switched file systems, it doesn't
actually write over data.

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AndrewJ wrote:
> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I hooked
> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours writing
> 1 and 0's and making floppies.

You didn't accomplish anything by formatting. Use a utility like wipe.exe,
Eraser, or overwrite existing data with random data.

 

[TJM]

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You didnt wipe off the data, bro....

All you are suggesting is rewriting the partition tables, which doesnt really
erase the actual data. It would be fairly easy to recover the data.

Use a proven sanitation method that complies with Dept. of Defense 5220.22-M,
Chapter 8-306.....that will insure that no one can recover the data.


> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I hooked
> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours writing
> 1 and 0's and making floppies.

 

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AndrewJ wrote:
> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I hooked
> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours writing
> 1 and 0's and making floppies.

You didn't clear that drive at all. Formatting does not overwrite the
data on the drive. You should have just used a utility like "wipe" from
bootdisk.com or similar.

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"TJM" <tjm@nospam> said:

> Use a proven sanitation method that complies with Dept. of Defense
> 5220.22-M, Chapter 8-306.....that will insure that no one can recover
> the data.

what if you rub a speaker magnet over it?
-vp

 

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Mr. Vice President wrote:
> "TJM" <tjm@nospam> said:
>
>
>>Use a proven sanitation method that complies with Dept. of Defense
>>5220.22-M, Chapter 8-306.....that will insure that no one can recover
>>the data.
>
>
> what if you rub a speaker magnet over it?
> -vp

Expect the person buying it to show up demanding their money back...

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>> what if you rub a speaker magnet over it?

> Expect the person buying it to show up demanding their money back...

rofl

 

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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:27:23 -0700 Its all about soul.No soul,no life
and then "JAD" <Kapasitor@coldmail.com> wrote :

>after a format, remove the partitions very few average people would
>be able to recover that data......if your holding the schematics to a
>new cold fusion energy device on the drive, don't sell it, otherwise
>let the paranoia go.

Agreed.Also.Most hard drive maker's have a free,"Zero-Fill" LLF(Low
Level format) program.These are not true LLF but run them twice an
even the CIA will have difficulty getting their lasers to read the
footprints ;-)

>"AndrewJ" <andrewj@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:modoh0tpthhnbhpfe8a250uhs0ucoedc2c@4ax.com...
>> Before you sell that old drive don't just format it. That leaves all
>> the data intact. I'm shipping an old notebook drive tomorrow. I
>hooked
>> it to the desktop. Formatted it NTFS, then in FAT32, then back to
>> NTFS. I believe that should do it for most SOHO users.
>> There's a good program Eraser but I didn't want to spend hours
>writing
>> 1 and 0's and making floppies.
>



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In news:alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, "Mr. Vice President"
<vp@whitehouse.guv> posted on Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:45:29 GMT:

> "TJM" <tjm@nospam> said:
>
> > Use a proven sanitation method that complies with Dept. of Defense
> > 5220.22-M, Chapter 8-306.....that will insure that no one can recover
> > the data.
>
> what if you rub a speaker magnet over it?
> -vp

Just puke on it. Nobody will touch it.