Wiping Infomation and Data Discussion

**unclex** · 5th April 2003

Wiping Information and Data Discussion

I would like to ask everyone about the age of some of their hard disks and the age of the data that is sitting on them.

I was doing a clear out the other day and found that one tower had data that had been moved from disk to disk from about 1988 mmmmmmm

Well that was a real shock or I am a complete software and data hoarder

This one tower has five had disks running in it in various sizes and I would say that they are my oldest ones.

All I can say is, if I go on like this I will have to start building a disk array.

Now I am running out of space � I think I am going to Poll this one.

1. Do I wipe them and put all that information and data into the past.
2. Buy some new hard drives and move the data into one or two drives

Well it is a hard one. Getting to my point

Wiping Data

If I go for option one or two the data would have to be wiped and I would have a number of odd sized drives. Some would be for the bin.

Data wiping is something that I spoke about in a thread that was in The Dog and Duck a while ago.

here is the tread http://digital-forums.com/forum/show...hreadid=171616

I thought I would start it again here as a useful topic, but this time in more depth, after I just cleared about 1.5 gig of one of my other boxes last night with a product called Windows Washer 4.7

From the information I have found about scrubbers around the world of the internet ( I am not talking about birds either) Some of them do not work, BD-Wipe as an example.

Now I have been talking about windows applications, but I would like to explore other O/S�s too, over the next few weeks.

I would like to some of discuss the following:

Scrubbers
Encase
PowerQuest products

Slack space blar blar blar.

Windows applications and testing, methods

Unix /Linux applications and testing, methods

This should start the thread off

**the_wizzard** · 7th April 2003

i had a small prog that claimed to completly overwrite the hdd sectors with 00 xx multiple times thus making it almost impossible to recover data(i never used it) but! ive lost it and any b\ups and cant remember the name(so if it worked or not i dunno) also anyone know if hddkiller pro was of any use? as i seem to remember once it was started it would constantly try to format all drives, is this true? also hddpro is embedded in sub7?? from what i remember.

wiz