erasing hdd to 0 with 3rd party software

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a friend of mine wanted me to post this, he would like to know how he can wipe his hdd to nothing and not be able to recover documents. And yes i told him and he know about using startup disks and crap. But he want there to be nothing on the hdd at all. He has personal bussiness documnets that he doesnt want people to recover. So he want to be able to wipe to 0 and then be able to use that hdd later on if he need to or he can give it to me :).
 
Low level destructive format and the hard drive is toast.....Any resonably effective data recovery program will find the old stuff....to a degree...If he absolutlely doesn't want the stuff potentially recoverable.....it's called a hammer and a oxyacetalene(sp) torch!!!! My Son didn't believe I could recover the porn he attempted to erase after reformating the drive 3 times and reinstalling xp..twice....but there it was!!! :)
 
LMFAO i did that once i got my friends porn off the computer and give it to his dad. lol but back to the topic. He does want to still use the hdd he just told me as im writing this. but what does he need to do he doesnt have the windows cd i have pro but he jsut want it all gone. plus he has some old computrers too that he want this done to so.... i dont know what to tell him.
 
Patition magic is a 3rd party tool that probally does it.

But... there will always be remains of it. I think if you do a slow format than it does it better, but still there will be traces of the pr0n, I mean documents. :p


You forgot the good ol' magnet.
 
Chances are, unless he's got stuff the CIA and FBI want...he will be safe. Just reformat all the drives. Other than physically destroying the drives.......there will always be recoverable data on those drives no matter what.
 
lol yea, no he has banking documents on it. with stocks and other crap that i put into his new computer. But the low level format how can i do it. i mean i dont want to windows on that hdd i want it to be nothin blank hdd.
 
You do not want to low level format...it is destructive. Just do a slow format NTFS or FAT 32. As far as I know, you can't do a data recovery remotely (someone correct me if I'm wrong) so unless Inspector Gadget sneaks in a midnight and does some recovery work or the IRS yanks the hard drive via a court order....tell him not to worry about it...it's a little paranoid...or there is something else on there that is really illegal??!! If that is the case.....put the hard disk in the septic tank and let the bacteria read the drive. :)
 
horndude said:
please, boot up a copy of knoppix or any live linux cd and use dd

code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=1k count=drive_size

hdx=drive designation, drive_size is self explanitory

that will literally zero the drive,ALL of it
when do i put in that code i have a copy of knoppix.
 
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