Do very beautiful women.....

[Panamark]

One word "BCWipe"

You can select the depth of erasing you want.
For most purposes even a one pass delete (quite fast)
will be enough to stop any hard disk recovery software
Joe Average would own...

*HOWEVER* the military, CIA/FBI have been known to
retrieve data that has been written over 6 times..
Scary, huh ! BCWipe allows a seven pass wipe that
is impossible to retrieve...

Hey Sesh, a good Drill does wonders too !!
If the actual disk platter inside is not damaged,
they can still open the unit and retrieve the data..

I used to service home computers for a living,
interesting point, I never serviced a PC that didnt
have at least one naked or pornographic image on
it.... Even on the old fogey's machines !!

And these were discovered by simple file search
from the start button....

Biggest idiot of them all. Gary Glitter !!
Takes his PC in for repair with a Hard Disk
full of Child Porn...
I bet he thought "Well the system doesnt seem
to work, therefore all those images must be gone
now" LOL

Im the Leader !! The Leader of the Dorks !!

[m_dixon1984]

Here's another good link for a disk wiping tool I use at the office: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Make sure you are doing 7 pass, random character, wipes as Panamark is correct in saying that anything less can still be retrieved.

Hitting the drive with the hammer doesn't erase the data it just makes the dirve unusable as is. Someone who really wants at the data could replace the controller card or just move the platters themselves to another case.

Experienced hackers can retrieve data from re-formatted drives, low-level formatted drives (replaces all data bits with a 0 or 1 in a single pass), and even some far more complex wiping methods. 7-pass, multi and random character wipes are currently the only safe data wiping method (approved by the Canadian military and Banks, BTW, as well as most American institutions).

M

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

The Peter Guttman method comes with Eraser as well.

Who couldn't tell Gary Glitter was a fag by

a) Looking at his name
b) Seeing his stupid ass costume

[Nickdfresh]

This thread reminds me of an old joke:

Q: Why did the blond have White-Out™ all over her computer screen?

A: She's not a very good speller --duh!!!!

[Panamark]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
The Peter Guttman method comes with Eraser as well.

Who couldn't tell Gary Glitter was a fag by

a) Looking at his name
b) Seeing his stupid ass costume

Not sure he is a 100% fag.
I know the last court hearings he had to attend
involved young girls, not boys.

definately a pedo.....

[Panamark]

and a dipshit !!

[Ozzy Fudd]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
This thread reminds me of an old joke:

Q: Why did the blond have White-Out™ all over her computer screen?

A: She's not a very good speller --duh!!!!

OMG that's funny as hell

[Ozzy Fudd]

Originally posted by blonddgirl777
Ozz... you are a true gentleman!

I do try..

[Ozzy Fudd]

Originally posted by blonddgirl777
And why wouldn't he? L.O.L.


But I truely beleive that Ozzy is the kind of guy who thinks:"Well... if this girl would be me or my sister, I wouldn't want to see her naked pictures circulating on the net."...

What goes around, comes around!

Do you know me or somethin...lol

[Ozzy Fudd]

Originally posted by chan_bkny
This thread couldn't have come at a more opportune time. I just bought a new iMac to replace my first-generation iMac. I don't know how to transfer my files from the old computer to the new one other than emailing them to myself. I have a zip drive that was hooked up to the computer before, but the new Mac has a CD drive. And how do I delete all the files from the old computer? The suggestion of taking a hammer to the hard disk sounds good, but I don't want to startle the neighbors as these apartment walls are thin. What's a good program to download to delete my old files? Thanks.

I dont play with mac's...and using a BFH( Big Fuckin Hammer)on the Hard drive is a great idea like m_dixon1984 says.

[binnie]

Someone say naked women?

mmmmmm.......

[Hardrock69]

I use BCWipe.

If data cannot be retrieved after only 6 passes, that is cool.

I am wiping the free space on a second computer I have right now with the Peter Gutman scheme.....35 PASSES.

Woohoo!