some one had asked me once:
I am planning to sell my old system, but i am not sure how I can clear all of my personal info from it, I heard that a format is still not safe. So I was wondering if there was an application that would take care of this.
explanation:
Selling my system - how to clear all
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You will want to do a low level format. search for "Wipe Disk" or get Hiren's Boot CD - it has some tools to do it.
Generally when you format a drive, it just marks all files as "deleted" but doesn't do anything to the data. A low-level format actually writes 0's to the entire drive (which takes much longer). To do a highly effective job, you can go as far as writing several cycles of 1's, then 0's, then 1's, then 0's to make forensic analysis harder.
I am planning to sell my old system, but i am not sure how I can clear all of my personal info from it, I heard that a format is still not safe. So I was wondering if there was an application that would take care of this.
explanation:
Selling my system - how to clear all
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You will want to do a low level format. search for "Wipe Disk" or get Hiren's Boot CD - it has some tools to do it.
Generally when you format a drive, it just marks all files as "deleted" but doesn't do anything to the data. A low-level format actually writes 0's to the entire drive (which takes much longer). To do a highly effective job, you can go as far as writing several cycles of 1's, then 0's, then 1's, then 0's to make forensic analysis harder.
