AuroraSport
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Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Norfolk Drives: Audi B5 S4 Avant
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Hello all,
Im wanting to sell an old laptop on ebay, therefore i would like to completely wipe the HD of all traces of secure data. Im led to believe that a simple reformat does not cut it.
Any advice on software i can use?Or anything i can do myself? I heard DBAN is good although i dont have any CD-R's to hand for burning a disk.
Cheers.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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DBAN is good, whatever you use you'll need to either burn to disc or put on some form of USB memory.
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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I've used a free WD Diagnostics tool before to format/zero/format a drive.
Killdisk is another popular tool as well as DBAN mentioned.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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DBAN is what I use
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