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Re: Hard Drive data security
From: Herman F.Ebeling Jr. <HFEbelingJr () lycos com>
Date: 30 Sep 2004 22:05:39 -0000
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Received: (qmail 29147 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 18:04:04 -0000 Received: from outgoing.securityfocus.com (HELO outgoing2.securityfocus.com) (205.206.231.26) by mail.securityfocus.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2004 18:04:04 -0000 Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [205.206.231.19]) by outgoing2.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 209E4143743; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:04:24 -0600 (MDT) Mailing-List: contact security-basics-help () securityfocus com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <security-basics.list-id.securityfocus.com> List-Post: <mailto:security-basics () securityfocus com> List-Help: <mailto:security-basics-help () securityfocus com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:security-basics-unsubscribe () securityfocus com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:security-basics-subscribe () securityfocus com> Delivered-To: mailing list security-basics () securityfocus com Delivered-To: moderator for security-basics () securityfocus com Received: (qmail 17404 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2004 09:56:35 -0000 Message-ID: <20040928121127.420bf34d () mail kurczaba com> From: Paul Kurczaba <paul () myipis com> To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Hard Drive data security Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:11:27 -0400 X-Mailer: Kerio MailServer 6.0.2 WebMail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I have a question about hard drive data security. The hard drive on m= y notebook is failing and Dell is going to replace it. They are going to= take the old one with them. How can I securely remove the data from the= hard drive=3F Thanks, Paul
Do you have an exteranl HD? If so I'd do a full backup, and then use a tool like PGP to securely wipe the datafiles. Using the highest number of passes, then when done wit that again a tool like PGP to wipe the freespace. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQVyDqR/i52nbE9vTEQJCXACfaZp0ZASjtdIpaRzdHoqvzvxAShsAniqk HcvtrPhtH8cMAeoaubLk9U7b =N3Q3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Re:Hard Drive data security Ghaith Nasrawi (Sep 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Hard Drive data security Shanafelt, Gabe (Sep 30)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Zachary Shay (Sep 30)
- RE: Hard Drive data security adisegna (Sep 30)
- RE: Hard Drive data security Dan Wozniak (Sep 30)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Herman F . Ebeling Jr . (Sep 30)
- Re: Hard Drive data security creative (Sep 30)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Gethin Jones (Oct 04)
- RE: Hard Drive data security Leong Kok Wah Kenneth (Oct 01)
- Re: Hard Drive data security creative (Oct 04)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Andrew Prince (Oct 04)
- Re: Hard Drive data security David Pires (Oct 04)
- RE: Hard Drive data security Leong Kok Wah Kenneth (Oct 01)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Alessandro Bottonelli (Oct 04)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Atom 'Smasher' (Oct 04)
- Re: Hard Drive data security J. Theriault (Oct 04)
- Re: Hard Drive data security Alessandro Bottonelli (Oct 04)
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