On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 10:59 -0400, Robert Snyder wrote:
> Branko wrote:
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> >>>>Western Digital's site has a tool for doing that. That's what I use...
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> >>What's the name of the tool?
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> >Did you mean Data Life Guard, that comes with their HD's? That only
> >writes zero's to the disk; I gues I could run it a couple of times. Now,
> >will that remove partitions, too?
> >
Yes the partitions will be gone but all you are doing is writing zero's
over zero's. more than one pass is useless.
>
> I happen to use the tool from Seagate on my drives.
> http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html
> Note use the bootable ones and not the windows version. Tell it to a
> zero fill then it will ask if you want full or lite zero fill say full
> and then it will ask if you want to low level format. ( note I am using
> a older version but it should be in the same place) Pick Low Level
> format. it will take care of your needs. Then reinstall the OS. Never
> give out a computer with out doing a fresh install of what ever OS you
> happen to choose.
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This is still a zero fill. These are o.k. for cleaning your own drive
but if you're giving the box away and want to put a reasonable effort
into wiping your data (without overdoing it) then Chris Lee's suggestion
is the best.
Darik's Boot and Nuke
This appears to have several types of multipass formatting. One even
looks like it makes seven passes of random data!! Runs from a bootable
cd or floppy. Also looks like it is used by the Department of Energy.
This tool looks like it will do the best job for a home user. And it's
GPL.
Mike Branda Jr.
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