Thanks, this looks like a good option. We also have one of those forensic tools for copying harddrives that law enforcement use, and I just look in the manual, there is a wipe feature with that tool also, I'll try both and see how far I can get before the drive doesn't work anymore. B-) On Monday 06 December 2004 09:08 am, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 9:49 am, Brad Bourn wrote:
maybe something to fill up the unused space with anything, forcing an overwrite where data was once stored.
Is there a fill type program?
B-)
The Ultimate Boot CD at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ has some disk wipe utilities. They don't care what's on the drive and they'll 'wipe' all of it by writing whatever pattern you decide on and however many times you want it written/erased. Usually ten passes of all 1s or 0s will be enough for your garden variety disk forensics. Since the HD is dying it may not survive another boot to start these programs...
But like the others have said. Anyone that has the money, time and technology to recover whatever was written on the disk will probably recover all of the information. Putting it through a metal shredder and melting the remains to a blob of slag will probably secure your data. Some people also like to use old hard drives for target practice. There are stories that even with a bullet hole through the platters information can still be retrieved from them.
Stan