[nflug] Wiping hard drive sensitive personal data

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> I am working for customer that does business with
> banks and they have personal data that sometimes might
> be kept on their hdd. Is there any good
> recommendations how to completly clean these drives?
> These are windows xp boxes.

If you can boot it up with Linux (eg. sysresccd) you can do a:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX

== or ==

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdX

Note: these will take a while.
use a few combinations of each for maximum effectiveness.

-Josh

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