[nflug] Wiping hard drive sensitive personal data

[Justin Bennett]

It all depends on how many times you rewrite each sector. The more times 
the harder to recover but the more wear you put on the disk. There are a 
whole bunch of DOD, NSA, ect standards. If you use a program, they 
usually tell you or let you choose what standard to use. I used a free 
utility called 'eraser' once. It let you choose the standard and how 
many times to rewrite the sectors, from what I remember I think I wound 
up doing like 6 rewrites per sector.

Justin


Darin Perusich wrote:
> i believe it depends on the type of wiping method you use. if you use
> the Canadian RCPM and American DoD standard methods the data is pertty
> much irrecoverable.
>
> eric wrote:
>   
>> Can Sleuth Kit recover data after using one or many of the methods DBAN
>> has to offer?
>>
>>     
>
>   
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