On modern hardware, it can be plenty. Please read: http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Dmitry Nedospasov <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm sure all of you know that just zeroing it the whatever, isn't really > "wiping". With the appropriate tools you can still recover the data. > Might want to look at a DoD 7-pass erase... Or even: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method > Just making sure ;) > > D. > > On Aug 8, 2009, at 20:55 , Adrian Crenshaw wrote: > > Ive noticed something. If I use the Windows DD from > http://www.chrysocome.net/dd and use this command: > > C:\Users\adrian\Desktop\aft>dd if=/dev/zero > of=\\.\Volume{de891b6a-8432-11de-86d4-005056c00008} bs=1M --progress > > it seems to leave some data on the beginning (sometime) and end (always) if > the drive had been formatted NTFS before. > > I'm using WinHEX to verify by the way. Any ideas? > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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