21 Jan
2006
21 Jan
'06
19:42
On Saturday 21 January 2006 04:39, Peter Nikolic wrote:
The simple fact they are SECOND HAND Hdd's just use dban a couple of times and they are safe enough to be resold for sure ..
That's true in most cases, but the OP wanted to know how to make *sure* all the data was gone. Regardless of why you want the data gone, melting the platters is the only way to be 100% certain of destroying all the data. dban is probably good enough for most people, but then, as I mentioned earlier, I really do enjoy destroying them ;-) Mark