On 3/8/07, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you securely erasing a hard drive before giving it away?
Ideally, you have a clean copy of the OS originally installed, or a "rescue partition" or Ghost image you can restore the disk to pristine condition with. (Make sure you have bootable media to do the restore with!) If not, I would strongly discourage sharing the disk, as many poorly-behaved programs hide information in easily cracked formats. I pretty much use my disks til they wear out, then drill a dozen holes through them. Use Knoppix Hack #49: boot Knoppix (free!) and run 'shred' to scrub the disk clean. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
