Re: Hard Drive data security

[Ghaith Nasrawi <libero () aucegypt edu>]

<snip>
Why do they want your bad hard drive anyway?
</snip>

that's a good question. people might need to keep it in its original
physical shape in order to return it to the
retailer/manufacturer/distributor if it's still in the warranty period.
I've found this case zillion of times with large corporations having
good warranty terms!



On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 22:43, tony tony wrote:
> Paul, 
>
> Try the non-techie approach....after they verify that your hard drive is
> bad...then take a hammer to the disk...pound on it a few dozen times...then
> give it to them. 
>
> Why do they want your bad hard drive anyway?
>
>
>
> --- Jonathan Loh <kj6loh () yahoo com> wrote:
>
> > Use eraser, or norton wipe, or some other tool to erase the whole thing. 
> > Eraser is a free utility.  But note this only works if the company uses just
> > another computer to try to recover your data.  If they use scanning
> > microscopy
> > well then......  but that's expensive.
> > That's if you can access the drive.  If you can't powerful magnets work
> > really
> > well.   Just make sure the harddrive is out of the computer when you do that.
> > --- Paul Kurczaba <paul () myipis com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >    I have a question about hard drive data security. The hard drive on my
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paul
> >
> >
> >
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> =====
> Tony T. CISSP, CISA, CDP, CIA
> Senior IS Security & Risk Manager
> 360.906.7893 (Work)
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