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Old 22-01-07, 03:01 PM
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Question Securing a PC
Just about to scrap an old PC, and apart from taking out the hard drive (and wrecking it) is there anything else I should do to make it secure?
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there are a few pieces of software that will write random data over the H/D but that depends on just how insecure you think the data was that you had on the drive!

I find 'tool fine adjustment' large Hammer works

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How big is the drive? Worth keeping as an additional HD in your new computer?

If not, look for one of the bootable CD's out there that can wipe the drive. (You could try this Darik's Boot and Nuke (Hard Drive Disk Wipe). Never used it myself, but first hit from google)
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If you listen to the conspiarcy theorists, all of the disk wiping programs can be beaten by the CIA somewhere in America. Having said that, they can read the smashed ones too.

I tend to deconstruct my hard drives and use the platters as coffee mats as everyone knows that the CIA agents don't drink coffee.
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Big drill in the hard drive its the only way to insure its clean, unless you have some of the software that I have
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Ditto, straight through it!
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Hard drives contain magnetized data like a cassette tape. Hold the hard drive by a speaker magnet a few times and that should corrupt all the data on it.......then hit it with a big hammer!!
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You can get software that will (Supposedly) delete data to US Government-approved standards

I think the US gov specifies 7x overwriting with alternative 0 and 1 bit data.

I guess that with each pass of overwriting, you are making it more difficult to recover the original data... however, I don't know how many passes are required before you could be sure that *Nobody* could recover the data.

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If you're going to be totally paranoid, do as Peter suggested and burn the hard drive then maybe put the remains through crusher.

I personally use some software called Paragon Disk Wiper and overwrite the platters 4 or 5 times. If I'm running short of coaster, I then remove the platters and use them to rest my mug on saves marking my desk

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