On the scrounge...

[Sp!ke]

That's rather an alarmist post based on lack of information.

DBAN About DBAN | Darik's Boot And Nuke is a well known utility developed by the open source community over many years.

I just punch a chizel through old hard disks - much faster.

 

[davidjpowell]

Dave, I have a couple here if they are going to good use for kids then they are free for you to collect.
Only up the road at Hatfield.

Cheers

Thanks to Franey for this. They have been collected and will be off to Pre School shortly!

Kind regards

David

 

[Geezer255]

That's rather an alarmist post based on lack of information.

DBAN About DBAN | Darik's Boot And Nuke is a well known utility developed by the open source community over many years.

It surpasses all of the US data destruction standards including those for the DOJ and the Department of Defense 5220-22.M standard.

Do not confuse this with software found on the covers of PC magazines which often run within a Windows shell leaving bits of files all over the place.

DBAN boots into it's own shell giving complete access to the drive locking out other write processes.

The commercial version uses the same algorithm but is for corporations who need tech support and third party indemnity insurance.

It's widely used in the UK by IT departments for recycling computers including those in schools and banks. It simply isn't practical to remove the hard disk out of an expensive laptop and destroy it when someone leaves or moves on.

This a quote from a commercial data deconstruction company;

"We utilize DBAN to facilitate our disk wipes. It's a simple yet effective tool. You may notice that this tool is based on free software, notably under the GNU General Public License.

Free software allows us to charge less, as we aren't trying to pay for expensive licenses. But don't worry, the software we utilize is well supported and in use around the world by large corporations, educational institutions, and government offices alike."


Unless you are the FBI with access to $5m electron microscope forget it, it's gone -

Some ref links;

Data Destruction

Data Destruction : a DBAN Test

Moundalexis.com: Disk Wipes & Data Destruction

OK OK, the man has got his comps so I just got to ad this, to you and me its easy to understand, Ive done quite abit of data recovery using cheap and also expensive pieces of software and kit and its suprising the results you can get from the cheap stuff..... if you tell someone who doesnt have a firm grasp on this subject, whats to stop them going to google typing in "dban" and getting loads of results so they click on a link which tells them its for data removal and it turns out that it isnt dban or another decent tool, they think after running the software they have removed the data...... they rebuild the machine but everything whatever it maybe is still there and easily accessable. I for one always assume everyone else is an idiot(no offence intended to anyone here) therefore the best solution is the easiest for the civvy to understand...... go into pcworld and buy the cheapest disk which will work with your machine...........

Ill jump off my soapbox now and shut up lol

 

[Olivier]

thanks to David to send me this link, I am looking for a IDE HDD over 100 GB, anyone as a spare unwanted one???
Thank you.
Olivier

 

[SilverSaloon]

cant help Olivier, but may be worth signing up to freecycle (google it) - probably pick one up on there free, or maybe find a bargain on ebay.....

 

[Olivier]

I went to the recycling centre today, they told me they have loads of them :bannana:, but will not give them away
Privacy apparently...