hwedin Posted January 4, 2011 ID:369757 Share Posted January 4, 2011 HiI'm needing to completely wipe the hard drives on a computer, as the computer is surplus to requirement. I don't know how to do this and it needs to be completely clean as the computer used to be used in my parents hotel so there is sensitive information such as tax/banking/legal/accounts/customers' details etc.Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSnakeKobra Posted January 4, 2011 ID:369810 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hi.Try Kill Disk. I've used that on many occasions to completely wipe everything.http://www.killdisk.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScanMan Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369958 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Take your pick from this pagehttp://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 5, 2011 Root Admin ID:369966 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Busting the Multipass Erasure Mythhttp://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/P...d=1202429342339Secure Erasehttp://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScanMan Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369976 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Busting the Multipass Erasure Mythhttp://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/P...d=1202429342339Secure Erasehttp://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtmlYep, I don't use more than one pass, I like Western Digitals zero fill software, works on all brands of drives Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 5, 2011 Root Admin ID:369996 Share Posted January 5, 2011 If you read the articles they claim you don't even need to do that on modern drives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScanMan Posted January 5, 2011 ID:370092 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Zero fill is the same as 1 overwrite, what else can you do to keep someone from recovering data? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor55 Posted January 5, 2011 ID:370096 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Couldn't you just reinstall OS? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwedin Posted January 5, 2011 Author ID:370227 Share Posted January 5, 2011 HiThanks everyone for all your help the computer is now empty.I never though that I would feel guilty and ashamed after killing a computer! Thanks again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coconutnut Posted January 6, 2011 ID:370379 Share Posted January 6, 2011 you should have just used an eraser...LOLOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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