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AuroraSport
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3rd Jul 11 at 15:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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.

John
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3rd Jul 11 at 18:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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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4th Jul 11 at 07:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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.
pow
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4th Jul 11 at 10:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

DBAN is what I use

 
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