[plug] HDD Erasure

[Arie Hol]

On 12 Nov 2005 at 23:11, 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?
> 

Most HDD manufacturers will provide disk utilities for download from 
their web site.

The utility is made by Ontrack.

You will need to make a boot disk from the downloaded file - ( using a 
Windows PC)

Then boot the PC from the boot disk - It has its own OS. (The latest 
versions use Caldera DOS - I think)

It will provide you with a menu system to - Diagnose - Report - Erase the 
disk - you will also be able to choose the number of times that each 
sector is over written.

If the owner of the drive is _REALLY_ paranoid about the data on the 
drive - just use a BIG hammer.

Current computer forensics and data recovery experts can now recover 60-
70% of data that has been over written up to eight times.

If you can't get the disk utility from the manufacturer - contact me off 
list, let me know the : make, model and size of the HDD.

HTH

Regards Arie
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