[N8 v2.0]

Those pix of yourself will be FOUND!



Skeletons on your hard drive
CNet.News.com | 4/20/2005 | Matt Hines

Tax records, resumes, photo albums--the modern hard drive can keep increasingly larger volumes of information at the ready. But that can turn into a problem when it comes to effectively erasing the devices.

There are a number of options for cleansing the drives of unwanted computers, from special wiping software to destruction services to manufacturers' recycling programs. But what many PC owners don't realize, experts say, is that these methods are often not enough.

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[splat]

Oh yeah


I have found some Interesting Stuff on Old Hard drives ! a Tax return , An arcitecual firms Book keeping . a couple of good games , some Porn, and some college chicks Diary.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Oh yeah


I have found ... some college chicks Diary.

Was it good?

 

[binary visions]

some college chicks Diary.

Was it a sex diary?

 

[splat]

Was it good?

I knew that would get your attention!!! and No not really , she went through a lot of boy's Becasue She didn't believe on Kissing on the First OR 2nd date ! and planned to stay a virgin till she got married. and would go into long boring a tirades about how all boys are teh same !

the architecual firms books were a lot more interesting !

 

[Echo]

I can't believe this is considered "news".

 

[Ciaran]

A friend of mine works at a small software company... they make cool utilities. One is the Drive Scrubber. It cleans a drive, and actually erases old data. It's made to ba a solution the the issue of old drives having old data that you can't get rid of. http://iolo.com/ds/index.cfm

 

[Denny]

I just got a bunch of old computer stuff for the racecar team, from an alumnus who worked for Intel a while ago. One of the HD's was labeled "Intel", so I booted it up. Windows NT server, "Administrator" account had no password! Not much interesting on it, but I thought that was pretty funny...

Anybody have any Rambus memory they don't need? That stuff's expensive on eBay, and I've got 3 dual-processor motherboards in need of some.

 

[golgiaparatus]

This includes after its reformatted?

 

[Echo]

Reformatting just overwrites the partition markers so the OS doesn't see the files. But the files are still there, you just need a program that will look for files without partition markers.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Just hook the drive up to a Linux box, then cat /dev/random to your raw whole disk partition.......

Not probably foolproof, but will destroy data "fairly" well.

-S.S.-

 

[stinkyboy]

Low level format. Zero all data.

 

[Pau11y]

Low level format. Zero all data.

or, if you plan on throwing the drive out, put it on your subwoofer's magnet for a few hours...cheap man's low level format

 

[SkaredShtles]

or, if you plan on throwing the drive out, put it on your subwoofer's magnet for a few hours...cheap man's low level format

If you're gonna throw the drive out, I suggest dismantling the drive and having a little fun with a ball-peen hammer.

-S.S.-

 

[binary visions]

If you're gonna throw the drive out, I suggest dismantling the drive and having a little fun with a ball-peen hammer.

-S.S.-

Much more fun!

I was in charge of emptying out a storage room full of old 386s at a place I worked. They wanted the drives wiped out. So I brought in this magnet my dad bought me as a kid for a science project - it's one of those big ones with a handle that holds 250+ lbs. - and wiped all the drives that way

 

[MG6]

i've heard bonfire works wonder as well.

 

[Toshi]

Low level format. Zero all data.

even after 0ing with multiple passes data can still be read by those with proper equipment . of course, most of us don't have anything that would justify the nsa or other snoop agency to spend thousands of dollars checking the spins of bits...