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Re: Erasing a hard disk easily
From: Adam <adam () huntrecruiting com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:18:55 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Would you concider donating them to http://www.freetradecampus.com where we would format and load linux on them to give away to needy students? On Monday 12 July 2004 02:49 pm, amilabs wrote:
I have a bunch of old computers I would like to donate. Old laptops with win 95/98 on them and some old tower desktops all circa 1995-2k. I would like to know if I can just use a magnet to completely wipe out the data for obvious security reasons. I have heard about the disk erasers like active kill and Perl utilities for this but with the ability of data ghosting etc. is this enough? Can I use a big magnet like a speaker magnet or something like a degasser to just wipe out the data without having to boot these old boxes and go through all the extra work. Thanks _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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