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Hard Drive Destruction Tips - Omniscient - 10-30-2009

For those that are interested in throwing away a drive or even just killing any possible recovery of files on it here is my suggested method.

You want to first zero write the drive.

http://www.killdisk.com/

Then use a crypter like truecrypt.

http://www.truecrypt.org

After that the info on the drive should be gone and unrecoverable.

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - DAMINK™ - 10-30-2009

Funny that. I figured it was possible and another thread here i was all but told its impossible.
Now watch everyone agree with you here lolol.
Cheers big ears.

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - WirelessWave - 10-30-2009

Hmm, i never really though about that eh, when i thow my computer out that someone might take my harddrive..

ThankS!

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - Jake - 10-30-2009

There's always the good ol' baseball bat. Tongue

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - Skill - 10-31-2009

I will definitely give this a try. The features look promising.

Thank you Smile

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - DAMINK™ - 10-31-2009

One day i cracked the shits with my server which had about 400 gig in it and threw it against a wall. Well the harddrive dislodged and actually fell through the wall as the tower left a big hole and fell underneath the house lol.
This is completely honest. I cracked it so bad i did not try restore the pc for a few weeks.
Yes the harddrives were destroyed with that venture. So perhaps a throw against the wall is as good. Dunno lol.

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - UID=0 - 10-31-2009

(10-30-2009, 09:30 PM)Omniscient Wrote: For those that are interested in throwing away a drive or even just killing any possible recovery of files on it here is my suggested method.

You want to first zero write the drive.

http://www.killdisk.com/

Then use a crypter like truecrypt.

http://www.truecrypt.org

After that the info on the drive should be gone and unrecoverable.

Ah, Killdisk, from Bruce Schneier.

A little off-topic I know, and although it doesn't say it on that download page,
but he was one of the design team of TwoFish, that well respected encryption engine.

His response to a blog in 2005, included 'Even from a theoretical perspective, Twofish isn't even remotely broken.'

Having said that, using Killdisk, (and I didn't see it at the download site), would probably not prevent you from formatting and using the drive again would it?

But having read about the capability of Killdisk, maybe just using it on its own, would be enough?

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - Sendaii - 10-31-2009

Personally, I think that DBAN is better. It's never failed me. I have zero'd many hard drives with it, and not a single trace has been left, I checked them with computer forensics-grade recovery tools.

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - Omniscient - 10-31-2009

Oh yeah forgot about DBAN too. I actually have that downloaded. Everyone should have an emergency DBAN kill switch. Smile

RE: Hard Drive Destruction Tips - manipulate - 11-01-2009

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