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hi.
a friend has asked me to wipe his HD clean, partitions and all, as he wants to get rid of the unit and doesn`t want anyone getting any possible information from the computer. we`ve cheacked thoroughly but he wants to make sure. so wipe the drive and leave nothing, nada, no operating system.
it was easy to do in 98 as you just boot to floppy and use fdisk.
how do you do this in XP?
regards.
kris.
Let me have the HD after you FDisked it, killdisked it. I have the knowledge & tools to plunge out everything about you :-)
i_XpUser
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xpuser: uh, thanks but i`ll pass on that offer lol but i know where to go if i want to give up all my secrets ;)
othehill: i thought that since fdisk deleted partitions it deleted everything in them, ok, not to the really hardcore users but they aren`t the ones generally rooting for your information are they?
but thanks i`ll check out the link....jennifer & farmer: cheers for the replies...
kris
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Go to your hard drive manufactures website and download their free utility software (maxblast or powermax by Maxtor, Seatools by Seagate, Data Lifeguard by Western Digital etc).
This utility will allow you to low level format the hard drive. This will write zeros to every location of the hard drive.
The hard drive will effectively be clean as a whistle as if it just came out of the factory. It will even loose all the partition information.
There is NOTHING better than this apart from taking a sledge hammer to the hard drive and smashing it to bits.
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What is the FBI standard for a sanitized drive? Format and write to no less than seven times? I vote for the sledge hammer or a cutting torch.
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Below is an excerpt from the Killdisk website. "Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann's data destruction method is also implemented. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever". Not sure if Active Killdisk is the free version or not.
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I'm with terii all the way. Those would be a LOT more fun!!! :)
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
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lol, guys, a sledge would be fun it`s true....
but have to go with the killdisk, free version...hope that works....
anyway, thanks for your replies, i`ll let you know how it goes...kris
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