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I need to complete wipe out my hard drive so no any data could be recovered even by the computer hardware specialists. Also thanks in advance.
Is complete hdd wipe out possible so no data could ever be recovered?
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Hellfire13
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Use one of these... http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tools-permanently-delete-sensitive-data-hard-drive-windows/
theyeti87
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If you care not to use this hard drive again, a sledge hammer is one option.
If you care to reuse this drive, I have had decent luck with CCleaner's formatting function. You'll want to set the format to overwrite, 3 passes or more. The more passes you select the longer it will take. A 1TB HDD formatted w/ 3 overpasses may very well take 12 hours +
If you care to reuse this drive, I have had decent luck with CCleaner's formatting function. You'll want to set the format to overwrite, 3 passes or more. The more passes you select the longer it will take. A 1TB HDD formatted w/ 3 overpasses may very well take 12 hours +
Darkvillain
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The only REAL way to make it so no data can ever be recovered is to smash the hard drive. There are programs which can bring anything that once was on the drive, back onto the drive. So if you are worried about something being found on the drive, smash it and buy a new one.
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Yes, but they are only available with organizations like NSA and experts of that caliber, who are usually not rampant.
But its a wise suggestion.
Goor read... https://www.powerdatarecovery.com/recover-deleted-files/recover-permanently-deleted-files.html
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True but if he's worried about something EVER being recovered, smashy smashy is the only way
. Even local police stations have the power to bring up things long deleted.
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Darkvillain :
True but if he's worried about something EVER being recovered, smashy smashy is the only way
. Even local police stations have the power to bring up things long deleted.
Naah, those are pretty expensive and tedious process, only available with high ranking organizations. Unless there is something on it which is explicitly incriminating, a simple boot and nuke should be fine. Even rewriting the disk with unrelated data and then nuking it clean should do the trick as the tentative data recovery, if at all, should be the previously unrelated iteration.
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Possible, yes. Easy & fast, no.
Basically, you want an app that will not only delete the reference to the files, but will also write "junk" data (i.e. all 0s, all 1s, etc.) to every sector on the drive...& make sure that it will do that multiple times.
Even with that, though, if you really want the data to not be recoverable, you'll still want to take a really strong magnet & swipe it across the platters multiple times. Or, better yet, take a drill & put a few holes all the way through the HDD enclosure.
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