[HLUG] hard disc shredder

[Gordon Alabaster]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 19:07 +0100, 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).

I got that one on a google and you use it, so it is worth a try. Thanks
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.