19 Jan
2006
19 Jan
'06
23:46
Deep Thinker wrote:
Hello all,
I am in the process of moving and I want to get rid of (sell, donate, give away) all of my old spare parts and self made boxes. I have about 20 hard drives of various sizes and I need to get rid of them as well. My question is, how can I make absolutely sure that all the data has been erased from those drives before I give them away.
The drives all came from clients that I did upgrades for and they did not want to keep the old systems. I have no idea which drives have sensitive information on them and which ones do not.
There are disk wipe utilities, that fit on a bootable floppy. You can also try filling the drive with junk a few times. And of course, there's "wipe", which comes with SUSE.