Am Samstag, 3. April 2004 17:09 schrieb Michael Cecil: Hi,
> If you want to sanitize a drive and then reuse it, use a overwriting tool > such as Autoclave <http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/> or > Eraser <http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/> and use the overwriting setting > recommended by Gutmann > <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html>. If you dont have such a tool or dont wont to use one, you can use dd on Linux (Use Knoppix if you don't have it installed) dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1024 Change /dev/sda with your drive and the count parameter to match your disk size. Repeat the procedure two or three times and it's the same as you used an overwriting tool. > If you want to sanitize the drive and discard it, then grind it up into > little crumbs and burn the crumbs. I just autoclave mine and then > disassemble the platters to use as wind chimes. I've heard it works to drill a hole and put battery acid into the hard disk. It destroys the surface, so it isn't readable any more. Alex -- The 5th commandment: A Discordian is prohobited of believing what he reads. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
