Re: Format Question !
From: Mailman (mailman_at_anonymous.org)
Date: 01/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:53:29 +0100
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:57:38 +0000, George wrote:
> I am selling a computer that I have been using as a dual
> business/pleasure machine .
> I have 2 drives one with WinXP installed the second with Mandrake
> Linux 9.2 .
>
> I have used the XP drive exclusively for my business needs and there
> are some sensitive documents stored in various directories .
>
> The Linux drive I used only for pleasure , internet access etc.
> and will just format this drive with the fat 32 file system .
>
> My question is will a simple fat 32 format be secure enough to
> make recovery of my business documents impossible in futre or
> do I need to use some other type of software ?
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated ..
>
> George ..
The question is "how sensitive". The more sensitive, the more effort
someone would be willing to invest to recover them, all the way to taking
a tunneling electron microscope to the hard disk platters.
If the sensitivity is at the "ouch" level a simple format (or better -
fdisk changing the partition table + format) would do.
If it's jail-time for you but (relatively) little financial gain for
someone else use an erasure utility (Symantec's GDisk comes to mind),
followed by fdisk and format as above.
If it's "numbered bank account"/"human life" sensitive take the disk out,
take it apart, bake the platters in a furnace for at least an hour,
sandblast them and cut them into pieces. Dispose of the pieces in garbage
dumps in separate cities (countries if you can).
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