Another government agency I once serviced does
the drill method. Not only on pc hard drives but big mainframe dasd
drives. The only problems with the ash and drill methods are that the
drives are not only unreadable but also totaly junk.....
Bob
James Schenken wrote:
I don't know if the reference to CIA procedures is correct
or not.
But, writing over all the sectors on a drive three times will make the
data virtually unrecoverable.
If someone wants to spend enough money on the problem, then they still
can retrieve most of the original data.
OTH, I know of another government agency that shall remain unnamed that
just puts the drives in a furnace and melts them down to slag.
Their data is guaranteed unrecoverable.
If you're looking for a quick and easy ( and permanent ) method, then
get
your handy drill and make about 4 holes completely through the drive
casing, the plate, and out the other side. That will stop everybody
but the extremely well financed snoopers.
Cheers,
James
At 03:26 PM 2/14/2009 -0500, you wrote:
Karl,
What do you do to erase all the data completely? Years
ago I heard that the (US) CIA wrote over the entire drive three times
before throwing them away. I have a 4.5 gig drive that I can't get
at a secret partition on it. Even log formatting it doesn't erase the
partition. I believe it is a partition from a JAZ drive disk that I
copied on to the 4.5 gig drive. The JAZ drives disk had secret
partitions
that allocated the extra good sectors hidden on the drive so it would
never have any bad sectors in its guarantee one gig forever
Roy
James Schenken
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