On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Rob Malpass wrote:
> I know data can be recovered even if you wipe
> the partition etc
I'm not at expert on the subject but as I understand it data can be
recovered even if it has been overwritten several times, whether anybody
will be willing to go to the trouble or not is another matter.
> Essentially without a safe data shredding program, I'm going to use
> truecrypt to create an encrypted partition over whatever data was there
> beforehand. AFAIK this must overwrite what was there with a blank drive
> (not just a new partition table) which could only be accessed if they
> guessed my truecrypt encrypted password. So at best, someone could only
> ever get back to the blank encrypted drive - not the ntfs partition that was
> there before I "formatted" it with truecrypt.
>
> I guess anything's possible but how decent a solution is this?
It's better than nothing I guess, but you'd be better off using something
like DBAN (
http://www.dban.org/) or simply using dd to write to the entire
disk multiple times.
Andy
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