Kill Hdd

V-PV-P State College, PA Member
edited January 2007 in Hardware
I need a program, or some way to completely remove all the information off a HDD to the point that it cannot be saved or read again. I want to format it, and reinstall windows and everything, but I want to remove all the data first to the point that no matter how I try, the data cannot be found again.

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  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    There's no way to completely remove data, short of physical destruction of the drive, that is, burning it until it's just ashes.

    I think a 35-pass DoD grade disk wipe will do the trick. Try Eraser.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    V|P wrote:
    I need a program, or some way to completely remove all the information off a HDD to the point that it cannot be saved or read again. I want to format it, and reinstall windows and everything, but I want to remove all the data first to the point that no matter how I try, the data cannot be found again.
    Seagate's DiscWizard has a Zero Fill Utility. It works on non-Seagate drives as well.

    EDIT://
    Seagate DiscWizard is a boot disc utility. Eraser, runs w/in the OS.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    Kwitko wrote:
    There's no way to completely remove data, short of physical destruction of the drive, that is, burning it until it's just ashes.
    I think a 35-pass DoD grade disk wipe will do the trick. Try Eraser.
    Thanx for the link, Kwitko!! :smiles:
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    These programs write the enitre drive, first 1, then 0 and so on.
    They take a long time to run, but there is no recoverable data what so ever.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Darrik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) will zero fill a drive with an unlimited number of passes.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    killdisk will also do a 35 pass Department of Defense-grade wipe..

    That **** can take DAYS though.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    So, that should do it then. One of these utilities should do the trick...

    Good Luck!
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    lol

    like I said, sledgehammer and smoke-wrench.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    airbornflght wrote:
    ...like I said, sledgehammer and smoke-wrench...
    That would certainly work, however, V|P intends to re-use the HDD...
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    at this point no he doesn't.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    airbornflght wrote:
    at this point no he doesn't.
    Oh. Really? He didn't let us know here unfortunately. We only had his post (post #1) to go by in determining what he needed.

    Oh, well. Good information posted here anyway.

    V|P, please, keep us apprised so we know whether you need help any longer or not.. Thankyou. :)
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Yeh, I sent him a prog to do the deed about 3 hours ago, he said that wiping the hard drive via software was a little less conspicuous than taking a ten pound sledge to it. I told him I would just take it to my shed, fire up the oxy-acetylene and turn it into a spray of molten metal.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    airbornflght wrote:
    Yeh, I sent him a prog to do the deed about 3 hours ago, he said that wiping the hard drive via software was a little less conspicuous than taking a ten pound sledge to it. I told him I would just take it to my shed, fire up the oxy-acetylene and turn it into a spray of molten metal.
    ROFLOL! Yeah! I think that'd definetly do the trick (plus it'd be fun!!) :bigggrin:

    So, what prog' did ya send 'im?? hmmmmm??? something interesting??? :rolleyes2
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Pterocarpous wrote:
    ROFLOL! Yeah! I think that'd definetly do the trick (plus it'd be fun!!) :bigggrin:

    So, what prog' did ya send 'im?? hmmmmm??? something interesting??? :rolleyes2

    and I can guarantee you that no one will recover that data.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    airbornflght wrote:
    and I can guarantee you that no one will recover that data.
    Is this some sort of IQ test or somethin'........ :scratch:
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    no.....
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Whatever you do, don't pick a utility that is endorsed by the NSA. According to my wife (she's a cryptographer) anything that the NSA endorses has already been broken or backdoored by the NSA. ;)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    what the hell did you have on there, vash? something illegal? :crazy::p
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited January 2007
    primesuspect wrote:
    what the hell did you have on there, vash? something illegal? :crazy::p
    No... just some things.....

    Well, I think I'm going to try killdisk first and go from there.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    thwart the caps filter...

    YOU HAD PORN. GIGS AND GIGS OF MFING PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL. LOTS OF IT. AND WAREZ.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    V|P wrote:
    No... just some things.....
    Well, I think I'm going to try killdisk first and go from there.
    I don't get it. I thought airborn' sent you a prog' so, case closed... (see posts 9-13) :scratch:
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited January 2007
    Pterocarpous wrote:
    I don't get it. I thought airborn' sent you a prog' so, case closed... (see posts 9-13) :scratch:
    It didn't work for some reason, and killdisk sounds so exhilarating. Yes thrax, you got me, it was 250 GB of PR0N
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    I'll bet it wasn't porn. In general, porn distributors don't go after content thieves. Which leaves movies, music, or programs. Possibly TV shows. (And really, who only has 250 GB of porn).
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited January 2007
    shwaip wrote:
    I'll bet it wasn't porn. In general, porn distributors don't go after content thieves. Which leaves movies, music, or programs. Possibly TV shows. (And really, who only has 250 GB of porn).
    No one is after me. My parents may be after me if they saw what was on it. And I've never had more than 1 GB of porn on my HDD....:scratch:
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    V|P wrote:
    No one is after me. My parents may be after me if they saw what was on it. And I've never had more than 1 GB of porn on my HDD....:scratch:


    only 1gb? Well, I prefer to stream.
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