Need program to remove data

**digital** · 10-12-10, 09:59 AM

Right Zeros to it and you will be fine.

**WileECyte** · 10-12-10, 10:17 AM

File Shredder requires you to be booted into the OS though, and likely won't let you nuke the OS files. DBAN is a boot-disk (that works well off a bootable USB stick, BTW) and will wipe everything, including the partition table.

**Veovis** · 10-12-10, 10:42 AM

Yeah I guess I'm just used to having so many disks (and an external dock) that formatting a disk from windows is no issue.

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**WileECyte** · 10-12-10, 11:04 AM

I have a 16 gig USB stick that I refer to as my 'swiss army knife'. It's bootable and has grub4dos on it. So it presents a boot menu and lets me boot from any number of bootable ISO images. DBAN is one of the ISO images I have setup. Extremely handy, and eliminates the need to burn a million CDs/DVDs. When the ISO is updated, I just copy it to the stick and I'm done. I've got a dozen or so bootable images on the stick. Most are under 100 megs.

**ninja|oaklandr** · 10-12-10, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

I have a 16 gig USB stick that I refer to as my 'swiss army knife'. It's bootable and has grub4dos on it. So it presents a boot menu and lets me boot from any number of bootable ISO images. DBAN is one of the ISO images I have setup. Extremely handy, and eliminates the need to burn a million CDs/DVDs. When the ISO is updated, I just copy it to the stick and I'm done. I've got a dozen or so bootable images on the stick. Most are under 100 megs.

That's good unless you have to support older systems that can't boot from USB.

**iamjohnnyrico** · 10-12-10, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Warflagon

I can't answer the question, but I'm wondering....why not just destroy the HD and put a new one in the PC to sell? Aren't HDs pretty cheap these days?

Because I would be destroying 2 WD 74GB Raptor drives, thats why.

Originally Posted by dex71

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Rico......You building a new rig?

Yep, and it gonna be a mean SOB too.

Originally Posted by digital

Right Zeros to it and you will be fine.

I'm not sure how to do this due to the fact the HDD's are in RAID 0 and the OS (Vista....I know) resides on the drive. Do I format first then write 0's to the drive?

I would really like to sell the HDD's w/the rig.

**Arreo** · 10-12-10, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by digital

Right Zeros to it and you will be fine.

No you won't. Just zeroing out data once is no where near enough.

DBAN would be my recommendation also. It isn't the crazy DoD certified bajillion pass super wipe, but it would be hard for someone to recover any data.

**WileECyte** · 10-12-10, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by ninja|oaklandr

That's good unless you have to support older systems that can't boot from USB.

I don't support systems that old. I tell them they need to spend the money to buy a new machine because it's a waste of my time and their money to fix what they have.

**HeavyG** · 10-12-10, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by Arreo

No you won't. Just zeroing out data once is no where near enough.

DBAN would be my recommendation also. It isn't the crazy DoD certified bajillion pass super wipe, but it would be hard for someone to recover any data.

Writing to 0s should be fine. Purging the data to all 0s should keep 99% of people away from your data. What kind of data do you have on these drives anyways? Credit card/SS info? I have sold over a dozen hard drives with only wiping them to 0s. You are at more of a risk having those drives on a PC that is connect to the internet than selling your raptor drives to a scam artist that wants to commit fraud with your personal data or whack off to the sexy pics that you took at the lake house last year... yea, you know the pics I am talking about.

Most scammers don't want to put money into anything... they would rather steal it. Write them to 0s and sell them.