[HLUG] hard disc shredder

[Paul Stenning]

I forgot the link... http://www.dban.org/

Paul Stenning wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
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