Well here's the situation, we have users that leave that have had student data on it. (I work for an ISD here in Michigan) Anyway my boss wants us to start wiping the hard drives so that data can't be pulled off of it later. We were thinking of overwriting it with 1's and 0's like 6 or whatever the military uses. My question is, is there a utility that will fit on a floppy that will do that? Or is their something readiliy available in Linux that will do it? We don't really want to spend money. If anyone knows how to do this with GDISK that comes with Ghost I would appreciate that knowledge too.
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Formatting hard drives that held secure data
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DBAN or Autoclave
Autoclave is included on the Ultimate Boot CD (freware ISO), which I think you need
neither are Department of Defense "certified" but will easily do the job
Autoclave is included on the Ultimate Boot CD (freware ISO), which I think you need
neither are Department of Defense "certified" but will easily do the job
corrosive23
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ultimate boot disk has some disk whiping utilities on it, one will write 1's and 0's to it as many times as you feel the need to, then will make a partition, write random crap, then do the 1's and 0's again
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and ninja editing takes another victim
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I second using the UBCD. In addition to having generic disk wipers, it also has a large number of manufacturer-specific programs.
Of course, it takes a *long* time to do this kind of stuff - even one pass is normally around 30 minutes or longer. If you have a large number of drives, this can be a real pain, as most of these programs can only do one drive at a time, and time is money.
Of course, it takes a *long* time to do this kind of stuff - even one pass is normally around 30 minutes or longer. If you have a large number of drives, this can be a real pain, as most of these programs can only do one drive at a time, and time is money.