[plug] HDD Erasure

Chris Watt something.rotten at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 23:19:16 WST 2005


Mainly its just clients who are paranoid about bank details etc. 
Mainly WinXP machines too, any Windows programs that will replace the
entire drive with blank data.  Several times? :P

~Chris



On 11/12/05, Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz_g at arach.net.au> wrote:
> cat /dev/random > /dev/hda
>
> Seems like a good way. But I think the general idea is to overwrite with
> something (or crap in this case) and that is usually enough for everyone
> but the NSA =)
>
> Tomasz
>
> Chris Watt wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Just curious if there is any way to seriously wipe a HDD beyond the
> > point of retreival by anyone?  As far as I'm aware it isn't possible
> > without the pysical destruction of the drive.  If someone knows of
> > something though?
> >
> > ~Chris
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