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McFrosticles · 01-27-2005, 10:21 PM

Today at work, I was given a task...not a hard task, but a very tedious one.

The City Offices in my city had 29 computers...they were all old, and they wanted em nuked. No data, nothing. They didn't want a trace of it. No problem...I whip out this nifty little floppy disk with this program...

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Takes about an hour on the machine, but the results are close to government data deletion. True, the only true way to get rid of data would be to like...magnetize the drive or something. But this program always pulls through for me.

Try it for yourself.

Hardknock · 01-28-2005, 12:50 AM

Next time I have a drive to nuke I will. Thanks for the tip.

sashime76 · 01-28-2005, 05:47 AM

Delete, defrag, and put a big piece of magnet to the hard drive...that ought to do it. Still a nifty program, probably should go on Hirend's Boot CD.

Dilbert1234567 · 01-28-2005, 06:35 AM

magnets do not work in practice

use dban

frankx · 02-01-2005, 08:02 PM

I've been using DBAN for quite some time to erase hard drives for the U.S. Navy. It does a DOD compliant erase of any HD. I'm quite happy with it. Otherwise, we would have to pull the hard drives and grind them into a fine powder, which would be a waste.

skaven · 02-02-2005, 08:55 PM

Yeah magnets don't really work that well...I mean have you ever opened up a hard drive? It's got a stack of ultra-strong neodymium magnets sitting a few centimeters away from the platters! You'd have to have one helluva strong magnet to cause any data corruption with an external magnet.

DBAN is pretty cool.

01-27-2005, 10:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
McFrosticles Tilted	A Great Program... Today at work, I was given a task...not a hard task, but a very tedious one. The City Offices in my city had 29 computers...they were all old, and they wanted em nuked. No data, nothing. They didn't want a trace of it. No problem...I whip out this nifty little floppy disk with this program... http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Takes about an hour on the machine, but the results are close to government data deletion. True, the only true way to get rid of data would be to like...magnetize the drive or something. But this program always pulls through for me. Try it for yourself. __________________ Good Grief

01-28-2005, 06:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Location: Central Coast CA	magnets do not work in practice use dban __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

02-01-2005, 08:02 PM	#5 (permalink)
frankx Psycho Location: The Tip of the Boot	I've been using DBAN for quite some time to erase hard drives for the U.S. Navy. It does a DOD compliant erase of any HD. I'm quite happy with it. Otherwise, we would have to pull the hard drives and grind them into a fine powder, which would be a waste. __________________ Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunken Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign

01-28-2005, 12:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
Hardknock Republican slayer Location: WA	Next time I have a drive to nuke I will. Thanks for the tip.

01-28-2005, 05:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
sashime76 Addict Location: Hoosier State	Delete, defrag, and put a big piece of magnet to the hard drive...that ought to do it. Still a nifty program, probably should go on Hirend's Boot CD.

02-02-2005, 08:55 PM	#6 (permalink)
skaven Insane Location: Austin, TX	Yeah magnets don't really work that well...I mean have you ever opened up a hard drive? It's got a stack of ultra-strong neodymium magnets sitting a few centimeters away from the platters! You'd have to have one helluva strong magnet to cause any data corruption with an external magnet. DBAN is pretty cool.