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If a hard drive has sectors that are corrupt or physically damaged, can those sectors be written over?
I have a bootable FreeBSD drive that I'm using to wipe the contents of a hard drive before donating the PC to my local thrift store. I'm using the following command to achieve this:
dd if=/dev/urandom ...
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If a harddisk has format errors, would running disk wipe on it still wipe everything?
If a hardisk is connected via USB to Windows and I attempt to open it, Windows says it needs to be formatted before it can be used. If I ignore this message and run disk wipe on it (like the cipher ...
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Quick permanent erase with 3 modes of unnecessary files, short time and recovery search optimisation [duplicate]
My sister asked me to back her photos up to my external HDD and to format his laptop. Days later, my external HDD suffered a fail, resulting in loss of photos. I used Windows' Recuva, Linux's RD-Linux ...
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Can you effectively wipe a hard drive from the current Linux OS?
I have a laptop that is barely alive. The screen is busted. The power cord is frayed. The power indicator flashes red sometimes. Etc. So I want to wipe the hard drive as effectively as I can before I ...
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Are some files that show up in the Windows Recycle Bin of a fully formatted secondary drive linked to another drive or physically present?
I have a primary (boot) SSD and a secondary HDD (via a SATA-to-USB adapter) connected to my computer. My goal is to sell the secondary HDD without exposing any previous data that was stored on it. I ...
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Cypher command din't wipe my deleted data
I used Recuva and got a list of deleted data that can be recovered, then applied the Windows command Cypher to wipe the partitions D and C, 3 passes were made.
cipher /w:D:\
cipher /w:C:\
Finally I ...
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what is the fastest way to erase/wipe hard drive? [duplicate]
I have a 1T usb 2.0 portable hard drive that I need to get rid of.
I didn't know it's such a pain to get it wiped!
Tried Eraser, 1 pass(psuedorandom) by default took 18 hours.
Tried Western Digital'...
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Where is data written to on a hard drive after a wipe?
I just used the "windows media creation tool" on a 1TB HD, and my drive was mistakenly wiped in the process. I did not read the warnings when using "windows media creation tool," so tried to use a ...
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Why should we wipe disks multiple times? [duplicate]
There exists various ways of destroying the data on a disk. Even simple wipes differ, some disk utilities give these options:
Format (does not actually wipe)
Wipe 1 time with zero
Wipe 1 time with ...
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How Data recovery and data wiper mechanism works on windows ?
I am a competent windows OS computer user . I know Delete , Shift + Delete and some of the Data recovery and data wiper tools.
But i don't know how these stuffs are working behind the scenes.
In my ...
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why writing 0's or random binary over you data just once isnt fully secure?
When wiping data with some programs you get different levels of 'security', i.e. the number of times they overwrite the data.
A basic level may be just overwriting it with 0's or random binary ...
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How to reset an NTFS MFT for no tracks of deleted files names to be found there?
When a file is deleted from the hard drive and the free space it used to occupy is securely overwritten (wiped), recovery tools can still usually find the file was there and show its name. As far as I ...
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Why some recovery tools are still able to find deleted files after I purge Recycle Bin, defrag the disk and zero-fill free space?
As far as I understand, when I delete (without using Recycle Bin) a file, its record is removed from the file system table of contents (FAT/MFT/etc...) but the values of the disk sectors which were ...
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