Before you throw away or sell your old computer.....
 

did you remember to DOD it 7 times?

seriously, if you just do a "regular" format, someone can still recover EVERYTHING!

so... thats including your credit card information

to be safe do a DOD format with a program called WipeDrive

http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive...hard-drive.php

Now you KNOW how to be safe :thumbsup

yay thanks

Drives are fun to keep in boxes under the stairs. :)

Couldn't you just take them to a place with a nice big magnet and let them soak a while?

yeah some people really are stupid enough to chuck that shite without whiping their dirve and then they wonder why they get conned....

i've gone to computer shows and bought used drives and they weren't even formatted still had OS and personal files on them i was thinking to myself that the vendor had to be out of his mind...

thanks......

Here's a free one:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

great, nice link :thumbsup

Basic info. Madawgz, are you going to next tell us how to us PF to filter traffic into our systems? Or are you just running out of relevant threads to start.

Just take a hammer to it

well its good info for people who havn't got a clue...

what if you didnt know about it? :upsidedow

This is THE only free fully functioning data shredding tool that actually works.

Greta thing is, it can go BEYOND DOD SPECS too :)

Do a gutman and try to recover even a shred of a file let alone the cluster tip. DOD is only 7 writes, gutman is 35 with a very random pattern of 1's and 0's.

You going to tell people to shred the CC offers they get in the mail as well?

Thermite works....

or use a hammer....

I secong the hammer idea. If im throwing it out, why do I care if it functions?

good information m8

Thanks for sharing that.

just take your puter apart and dump the parts in different locations ( that is in my case in different official government dumpsites that will try to recycle them ) your HD should end up in the ocean or whatever salty water you have available in your neighbourhood

Been doing bad things online? :helpme

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I always hammer them and then burn the rest of it, not because I'm wooried about my data privacy, it's just that it drives me so MAD when my computer is KO ...

Good to know that you all have such vital information that people "out there" will be doing forensic tests on your garbage to recover what ever they can.

Now the world's greatest mysteries will never be solved!

i saw a show on it, and there is guys who look for throw out hard drives to collect personal information and sell it....:error