On 3/12/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I hammer a nail though them. Much easier on your drill bits! If it's an old drive take it apart for the rare earth magnets which are very cool! Rare earth magnets are extremely powerfull magnets for those who don't know. They're in new drives, too but are much smaller. -- Paul _______________________________________________ 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.
