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How does writing zeroes to a drive remove data from it?
I know a fair bit about the process of securely wiping drives, including that one wipe is usually sufficient and that no-one has yet (publicly) been able to recover a bit of data from one pass of ...
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linux shred does not remove traces of filename even after truncate/removal?
I'm testing the coreutils /usr/bin/shred command.
It leaves traces of a file's name even though I told shred to "truncate" (remove) the file. I was assuming that shred would remove all the metadata ...
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How to erase any kind of files after formating and installing Fedora 27 Workstation
How can I safely erase files that could potentially be recovered after a hard drive format and installation on a Fedora 27 workstation? I was using Windows 10, and everything that I had in Windows 10 ...
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How to securely erase HPA, DCO, and any bad sectors of a SCSI HDD
Does dd if=/dev/zero of =/dev/cciss/c0d0 bs=1M wipe over the HPA, DCO, and any bad sectors?
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Zeroing a file from command-line
Is there a built-in command in Windows 7 or higher to fill a file with zero / NULL bytes?
The processing should happen in-place (i.e. it should modify the actual disk sectors / bytes of the file), ...
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Securely erase empty disk space on a Win 3.1 / DOS 6.22 system with builtin tools
I have a retro laptop from 1994, an IBM Thinkpad 340, which I want to give away, but first want to securely erase its deleted files.
The system contains both a GUI and CLI undelete application, which ...
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SDelete: where to get the physical disk number from?
Until recently, I have deleted hard disks this way:
Delete all partitions in Windows
Create a single partition for the whole drive
Assign a drive letter
Run sdelete -z with the drive letter
New ...
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how to erase sensitive data "permanently" if hd broken and cannot do full random overwrite?
I purchased a broken hard drive. I copied some of my movies on it. It is broken now. I want to send it back to the factory.
I wanted to permanently delete all my files with "Sdelete" secure tool. ...
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Erase all data from Samsung laptop
I am selling my old Samsung laptop which I got in 2009, and I would like to erase all data. When I press F4 and go to Samsung Recovery and choose the restore, it restores my computer to the same state ...
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Are there options for disk wiping software that do not require booting into the software first?
I have an external hard disk and a HDD that was formally internal but is now connected via a SATA-to-USB adapter.
I'd like to wipe both drives, but I feel uncomfortable booting into DBAN and other ...
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Difference between DBAN and dd command to securely wipe a HDD
I have read about dd and see that it can be used to securely wipe a HDD. But there is also a program called DBAN to wipe the HDD as well.
I know that using a live gnu-linux ISO I can wipe my HDD by ...
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Linux format hard disk, the data should not be recoverable
I am new to Linux. Can any one give me a suggestion on how to format hard disk. That is I need to clean the data, data should not be recoverable again. It should be permanently deleted.
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How to quickly and effectively wipe a Win7 x64 hard drive
I have a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 system and need to wipe the 1.5TB hard disk drive quickly and effectively. Quick, I guess, is a relative term; so more quickly than I've seen with some wipe utilities ...
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Data Shredder software [closed]
We use "eraser" and "o&o safe erase" to shred important documents on hard disk.
Does anyone use another software in Windows for wiping, what are the advantages ?
Thank you very much.
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Is using multiple passes for wiping a disk really necessary?
To stupid people, like me, you would have thought overwriting each bit on a disk would render the data completely unrecoverable.
Why do disk wiping tools have the option for multiple passes, i.e. 3 ...
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