Re: [Hampshire] Erasing Hard Drives

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Erasing Hard Drives
On Thursday 24 May 2007 18:34, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> I have been given a couple of old laptops that the owner wants me
> top wipe the drives clean before disposal. My original idea was to
> boot them up with the dban CD and let that do its thing.
> Unfortunately, I do not have the power adaptors for these laptops, so
> I am going to have to remove the drives and then use my caddy.
>
> I am a little concerned about using the dban disk, as I don't want
> to damage the main drive on my machine. What tools would people
> recommend that I can use to wipe clean a disk that is in my USB
> caddy?


sfill?

Part of the secure-delete package in Gentoo, or http://www.thc.org/

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