erase all the information on a hard drive…?
i was thinking about this.
i saw in magazines where they showed how to make sure your information could be erased from a hard drive and they literally showed step by step instructions on how to take a grinder to your hard drive and make… i dont know vertical or horizontal or whatever streaks or whatever their proposed technique was in order to truly make the data on the hard drive inreadable.
coudlnt you just fill up the entire hard drive with new information in order to erase the old information? that woul work wouldnt it? as long as you filled up the hard drive with small files. ………..right?
that would work woudlnt it? why arent there programs on the market that does this. hard drive security is hugely important to anyone that sells a computer. i imagine ebay is a goldmine.
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This is just what you need to do that. http://dban.sourceforge.net/
This meant to prevent recovery tools from getting to your deleted information. I user this regularly
If you want to erase all info on a hard drive.That is no operating system nothing. it is recommended you do a full format 7 times.If you are that worried about it a sledge hammer also works nice Just make sure you break all the platters inside.There are programs that clean hard drives well east tech eraser goes through all your personal info and erases/formats it 7 times And does not hurt your operating system.
the recommended destruction of a hard drive , from my understanding for government top secret files is to magnetically erase the drive seven times, grind the drive plates into dust , burn the dust for hours to the melting point, and then store for twenty years in a vault. no this goes way beyond reason when it comes to protection from old drives. however , if the government goes through this much trouble to destroy hard drives, then it stands to reason the running a reformat on a drive will in fact not erase a hard drive , the military, and investigative agency’s have programs they can run on a drive that has been reformatted several times, and they can still pull up information from the drive. there are some great programs that profess to completely erase a drive by running 1’s ,and 0’s over the drive plates for as many times as you feel are needed to completely erase a drive .
two thing if dont others to find your info smash you hdd up bcause it is said the FBI can find your data even if you format you hdd 20 or mores times thats how powerfull tools they have so watch out!!!!
What it sounds like you need is called a low lvl format utility. It tests every bit of the drive by writing 1s and 0s to them, and other patterns of sort. I would recommend downloading one of these untilities from the hard drive manufacturer as they are hard drive specific. After two or three passes you can be quite sure that no data is recoverable, not even a magnetic shadow will be left. As it suggests it formats the drive at the lowest level (smallest packet, i.e. bit = "a" 1 or "a" 0) possible.