angussf
join:2002-01-11
Tucson, AZ
|  reply to PeteC2
Re: [XP Home] Selling Computer....Best Way To Get Rid Of Data
said by PeteC2  :I am for wipe and reinstall, all the way down to fdisk'ing it. Fdisk, reformat, clean install of the OS. FDisk and reformat doesn't overwrite the drive with random data, and it's not that difficult to recover data from the formatted area -- there are many free tools out there for doing just that. DBan (referenced above) does |
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| said by angussf :said by PeteC2 :I am for wipe and reinstall, all the way down to fdisk'ing it. Fdisk, reformat, clean install of the OS. FDisk and reformat doesn't overwrite the drive with random data, and it's not that difficult to recover data from the formatted area -- there are many free tools out there for doing just that. DBan (referenced above) does No argument there, you are right, of course. I guess it comes down to how much effort you are willing to go to versus what you are trying to wipe out!
I have had systems come and go for many years now, and I never had a moment's concern that anyone was going to work hard enough to try and uncover anything on a freshly-installed OS...but then again, I really don't have much stuff that is that critical anyway.
I understand that for some this may be more of an issue, and in that case, yes, DBan is not a bad way to go. However, if I was that concerned, then I'd just slap a new hard drive in the box and make it a 100% non-issue.
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