Re: What about OLD computers??

[Robert Hodgins <ehodgins -at- telusplanet -dot- net>]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:25 -0600, Nancy Allison wrote:
> I thought that reformatting the hard drive removes all data except for 
> the most determined forensic investigator. If you have, or can borrow, 
> someone's installation disk for your operating system, you can reformat 
> the hard drive. If you have any doubt, reformat it a couple of times.

A quick google search shows a number of products that claim to be able
to "unformat" a hard drive. 

There is an open source program called dban (http://www.dban.org/)that
overwrites the data on a hard drive many times that can be used for some
measure of security, but even the author of the program states
(http://www.dban.org/faq/index.html#n50) you maybe vulnerable if
"Somebody with a lot of time, money, and brains needs to recover your
data."


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