Most software recovery will have problems recovering data after doing a simple zeroing of a drive. Truecrypt does this prior to filling with random data and further xeroing after would give most hardware recoveries problems.
Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
>Hi all
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>Yes this old chestnut again. Like most of us I guess, I have quite a few
>old hdds and we're now in chuck away mood. Physically I'll be disposing of
>these in as environmentally friendly a way as I can but destroying data is,
>as I remember, a bit tricky. I know data can be recovered even if you wipe
>the partition etc so here's my plan - any ideas how robust this is??
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>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.
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>I guess anything's possible but how decent a solution is this?
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>Cheers
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>Rob
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