Ok yall, family business closed a couple years ago. We still have multiple PC's to sell. I am sure all of them have at least a little bit of sensitive info on them.
Can anybody recommend a good software program to wipe the drives clean, but still retain the operating system. I have googled this, and there are literally dozens of programs out there, and its really hard to disseminate between all the different offerings.
Selling a few Pc's. Need to wipe hard drives
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by Kansas, Dec 13, 2009.
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The only true method......NONE !!!!!
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DBAN is your solution. I use it all the time to wipe hard drives. I have a copy on floppy, disk and a thumbdrive. It's a linux based program and has several variations to wipe a drive. Some are DOD wipes. The longer the wipes, the longer it will take the system to finish. So if you use like the 37 wipes, plan on it taking 24hrs to finish. Once the system starts wiping, remove the disk and start another wipe on a different machine.
Here is a link to dban>> Darik's Boot and Nuke
http://www.dban.org/download
It will come in a ISO image and you will have to burn it to a disk. Make sure the system boots to that disk and follow the instructions. It's quite simple program to use. If you have OS on different partition, you can choose the rest of the drive to wipe. I would recommend wiping the whole drive and reloading the OS.
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Is that a sure thing ?? And thanks for help yesterday, removed that update, reinstalled. All is OK
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Does it shred, and or overwrite all the info on the drive. And how safe is it ???
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Sledge hammer works good too.
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Your not going to sell the PCs with an OS like windows?
I don't know how legit that is...just an FYI... I wouldn't do it.
(I dont need any more reasons for anyone to try and come after me)
Anytime I have sold PC gear, I have wiped the drive. Boot&Nuke is excellent. But for most, a simple 'dd' with zeros (via unix) is fairly adequate...
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Of course a year ago I moved to Apple and never looked back at that dam license bull...
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