[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Kevin Korb]

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The only time they ever leave my house is for warranty replacement and
then I am thankful that the important stuff is encrypted because I can't
always wipe them when they are not working but I bet the manufacturer can
still read them.

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:27:16 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> I only feel the need to wipe out data when a hard disk leaves my house.
> The only reasons hard disks leave my house is they're tiny/obsolete, or
> busted. I use a commercial product to wipe such disks -- a 24 ounce
> hammer. Once the platter is bent in ten places and there's silver stuff
> all over the driveway, I don't think even the FBI could recover the
> contents.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> On Friday 11 December 2009 20:50:36 Kevin Korb wrote:
> > I think shred is what is on SysRescueCD which I have around for many
> > other reasons.  It has been years since I felt the need to secure wipe
> > a hard drive.
> > 
> > Most of my data is encrypted anyway.
> > 
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:47:34 -0500
> > 
> > Hank Lambert <hank at hanklambert.com> wrote:
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> > > For partitioning, I just use fdisk. For wiping data, I use dban:
> > > www.dban.org. It's a bootable ISO, and allows you to wipe up to 35
> > > wipes (Guttman Method). It is freeware, not open source.
> > >
> > > - --Hank
> > >
> > > Kevin Korb wrote:
> > > > If you mean wipe a disk with no data you can simply overwrite it
> > > > with nulls like this:
> > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1024k
> > > >
> > > > If you want to make sure the data is not recoverable then there are
> > > > utilities like shred that repeatedly overwrite the disk with
> > > > different kinds of garbage to make sure that people with a
> > > > laboratory can't read it.
> > > >
> > > > If you just want to delete the partitions go into fdisk or whatever
> > > > partitioner you use and delete them.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:26:56 -0800 (PST)
> > > >
> > > > "Ram K. Singh" <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > If there is a way to unformat and unpartition a hard disk.
> > >
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> > > - --
> > >
> > > Hank Lambert, KB4MTO
> > > www.hanklambert.com
> > > hank at hanklambert.com
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