Re: Hard Drive data security

[Andrew Prince <freddyboomboom () gmail com>]

You can use any of the many "Live *nix" CD's out in internetland to
boot the 'puter, mount a samba or nfs share, dd the original drive to
a file on the share, then use dd or another "wipe" type utility on the
cd to erase the drive.

http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html

are the first two links from a google of drive recovery knoppix...

There are also live cds based on BSD (FreeBSD I believe) that are
forensics oriented that you could probably do this with, if you're
into BSD.

Check out http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php and
http://www.linux-forensics.com/links.html

TTFN
Andy-roo

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:02:45 +0800, Leong Kok Wah Kenneth
<leongkwkenneth () ocbc com sg> wrote:
> Hi, guys.
>
> Creative : 1. what software should we use to make a copy bit & bit of
> data and what about if it is failing?
>            2. won't these data after restoring into another drive fail
> to boot-up the system if the 'bad' data is a system file, etc?
>
> Thanks
> kenneth
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Kurczaba" <paul () myipis com>
>
> 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?