Re: Hard Drive data security

[Paul O'Malley <ompaul () eircom net>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:11, Paul Kurczaba 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
Hi,

http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

This does the job if the drive is not dead first.
When you are finished _if_ the drive is not showing a reduction in size
then I suggest that the problem was operating system related.
i.e. if it is not showing bad blocks 

Pity it only delivers on IDE/ATA drives - however I suppose as there is
access to the source and _you_ can patch it or have it patched for you
it could be made do so.

Regards,

Paul O'Malley

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