[Novalug] Disk Wipe Software?

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Sat Aug 1 21:10:49 EDT 2009


On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Keith Bennett wrote:

> All -
>
> What is the current tool of choice for securely wiping drives?

Do you want to use the drive after you wipe it or just make the data 
permanently unavailable? For the latter I believe a blow torch is a good 
tool.

>
> I want to wipe a hard drive, and DBAN did not work; it reported an error and 
> said it might be caused by a bad sector.  That surprised me because it's been 
> functioning fine; although I guess there could be a bad sector that I 
> wouldn't encounter.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
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