[BC] GATEWAY 4DX2-50V C

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 05:15 pm, seaberg1 at juno.com wrote:

>It's against my "computer religion" to smash the hard-drive. I think
>reformating the drive will wipe out the stored date.  Any suggestions
>from the IT brain trust?

 Re-formatting, re-installing, etc. does NOT wipe the data.
 That's a fairly routine recovery, actually.

 If you really, Really, REALLY want it wiped, then you'll need to use
 either a "shredder" or a media analysis package, and write a 
 series of "walking ones" alternating with "walking zeros" across
 the entire drive, not less than three times.

 For most users, a re-format would be sufficient, but I wouldn't trust
 that if there's any sensitive data on the drive that you know about.

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