Anyone ever had to wipe their hard drive? Looking for tips
http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough
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16 Oct 2010 6:16PM
Well what you should have is an external hardrive so you never lose those "prized I don't watch it but I may stroke to it at some point"videos. Reboot your original cd to wipe all out but make sure your not losing something that was a pain in the ass to find once.
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17 Oct 2010 2:32AM
Open it up and replace it. Then burn your old drive to a molten blob of metal, otherwise it is possible retrieve info off your drive. Think black boxes in plane crashes. If they can find them they can retrieve the memory on them. I worked for a lab that did this shit. That is why when they found the black boxes from the planes in the 9/11 attack the FBI took them and hid them to hide that it was Bush that ordered the attack.
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17 Oct 2010 3:05AM
Doesn't reformatting wipe everything? I would think it does since you delete the partition or whatever its called so the OS doesn't even exist anymore, then you reinstall whatever windows version you have so everything is like factory new. I have seen people say this will wipe your hd and I have seen people say it won't.
It is always funny when people come here and ask how to wipe their hd though. And its always for "no reason".
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17 Oct 2010 12:22PM
its impossible to remove everything because your computer will never remove everything no matter how much u delete reformate wipe if u want to get everything off throw your computer in a fire have heat it until the metal in boiling that is the only true way to get everything
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17 Oct 2010 1:01PM
Pure rubbish and pure paranoia... formatting your hard drive properly, removes everything, theres no way too get your old files back they will be gone forever!
BUT.... your isp (internet service provider) still logs everything you download log on to or upload thats how you get caught!
Unless you download excessively then a company whos software your using everyday to download the illegal material may report you to your local Authority by asking your isp to check your internet history from there back logs!
How do you think they catch terrorists?
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17 Oct 2010 5:04PM
I normally use a dry cloth and a feather duster.
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19 Oct 2010 11:06AM
CCleaner...they have an entire suite of programs and they're free. 0's and 1's...written over in one pass.
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19 Oct 2010 11:10AM
thy used to say that you needed more than one pass but that was on old drives where the laser was less focused than they are today. Today's drives dont write "outside the lines" where data could be extracted by forensics but now, the beam stays in the guide so one pass is enough. Your financial data will be safe.
