[HLUG] hard disc shredder

[Paul Stenning]

I use Darik's Boot And Nuke (DBAN) which is a downloadable ISO image for 
burning to CD.  It's built on Linux I think, and is free open source. 
It does the multiple overwrite type disk wiping with as many passes as 
you want (it defaults to 3).

Paul

Gordon Alabaster wrote:
> Does anyone know how I could scrub a hard drive of all old sensitive
> data? Do any Linux live CDs have a program on that would do this well? I
> can find dozens of programs that should run under W but would rather go
> with something someone has used. Also I can afford to scrub the whole
> drive as I want to try some Linux distros for the older smaller PC
> afterwards.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gordon.
> 
>