gHacks technology news » wipe hard drive http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Disk Wipe Utility http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/16/disk-wipe-utility/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/16/disk-wipe-utility/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:45:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9082 Disk wiping describes the process of deleting data of a partition or entire hard drive so that the data cannot be recovered by data recovery software. Copy Wipe is a disk wipe utility for DOS or Windows that can be used to delete the contents of a partition or hard drive permanently. It can also be used to copy data from one partition or hard drive to another as well hence the name Copy Wipe.

Copy Wipe can be started from within Windows unlike Darik’s Nuke And Boot, one of the favorite disk wiping utilities, which has to be booted from. The advantage of Darik’s Nuke And Boot is that it acts independently from the operating system.

The disk wipe utility uses a Win32 console in Windows. The main benefit is that you do not have to reboot the computer to start the disk wiping process as it can be initiated directly in Windows.

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You can select one of several methods of wiping the hard drive with Copy Wipe many surpassing governmental standards. Please note that it is only possible to wipe partitions or hard drives that are currently not in use which means that you cannot wipe the partition with Windows in Windows. You could still wipe it effectively in DOS though.

The second option provide the means to copy data from one partition or hard drive to another again with the exception of partitions that are currently in use. Copy Wipe provides options for sizing the partitions on the target hard drive.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/16/disk-wipe-utility/feed/ 6 Wipe Hard Drive With e-Maxx http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/wipe-hard-drive-with-e-maxx/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/wipe-hard-drive-with-e-maxx/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:28:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6344 Before you sell or throw away hard drives you should make sure that the data on the hard drive gets erased properly and impossible to recover because some guys over at eBay love to buy used hard drives and recover their files to see if there is anything valuable to snoop on.

A software that can wipe the contents of en entire hard drive is e-Maxx. The software comes as a installer for Windows or as an iso image. The installer will write the files of the software to a bootable floppy disk while the iso image is ready to be burned and booted.

The user is then – after booting from the device – presented with an easy to follow menu where he can pick the hard drive and a method to delete the data on it. A secure option would be to pick the triple flux mode which would ensure that the data could not be recovered by normal means.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/wipe-hard-drive-with-e-maxx/feed/ 3 Freeware Securely wipe hard disk http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/08/freeware-securely-wipe-hard-disk/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/08/freeware-securely-wipe-hard-disk/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:41:28 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=114 If you ever sold or bought a used hard disk you probably know about this already. For all others, even if you use delete and format to clear the hard disk before selling it there are possibilities to recover most and possibly all data that was once on the hard disk.

There have been numerous cases in the news where people bought used hard disk and found confidential files on them using tools to recover deleted data. Enter Darik’s Boot and Nuke.

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (”DBAN”) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

The freeware offers different secure wipe methods, works among others with IDE, SATA, SCSI drives and fits on one tiny floppy disk.

Take a look at this great tool at dban.sourceforge.net

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