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Originally Posted by skipdup
Boot & Nuke http://dban.sourceforge.net/ - offers DoD level of securely wiping disks.
I researched this extensively some time back and hope I'm remembering correctly... But, it's my understanding that reformatting will NOT clear all the data. It will look cleared in windows, put some/much of the data is still there - just not mapped. Supposedly pretty easy to access the data from a UNIX OS.
The only way to truly "erase" is to write over each partition, repeatedly, with new meaningless data. Reformatting, nor deleting, just doesn't do that.
- Skip |
+1 To be sure you have no data left, use a wipe utility like this. Basically what this does is a low level format of the hard drive, (1 & 0's multiple times to the hard drive)