Re: Hard Drive data security

From: Andrew Prince (freddyboomboom_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/03/04

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    You can use any of the many "Live *nix" CD's out in internetland to
    boot the 'puter, mount a samba or nfs share, dd the original drive to
    a file on the share, then use dd or another "wipe" type utility on the
    cd to erase the drive.

    http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

    http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html

    are the first two links from a google of drive recovery knoppix...

    There are also live cds based on BSD (FreeBSD I believe) that are
    forensics oriented that you could probably do this with, if you're
    into BSD.

    Check out http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php and
    http://www.linux-forensics.com/links.html

    TTFN
    Andy-roo

    On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:02:45 +0800, Leong Kok Wah Kenneth
    <leongkwkenneth@ocbc.com.sg> wrote:
    > Hi, guys.
    >
    > Creative : 1. what software should we use to make a copy bit & bit of
    > data and what about if it is failing?
    > 2. won't these data after restoring into another drive fail
    > to boot-up the system if the 'bad' data is a system file, etc?
    >
    > Thanks
    > kenneth
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Paul Kurczaba" <paul@myipis.com>
    >
    > Hi,
    > I have a question about hard drive data security. The hard drive on
    > my notebook is failing and Dell is going to replace it. They are going
    > to take the old one with them. How can I securely remove the data from
    > the hard drive?

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