Grav3Mind Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 i need a free app that will do this for me. wipe the drive and make it un recoverable. PS: can i just format it with osx? would that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kintac Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 No, formating is not secure. Take http://dban.sourceforge.net/ put it on a floppy disk or burn the iso on a cd, boot and on the boot prompt type paranoid and press enter. Wait for some hours, days,... use the tool an a normal X86 PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 You should do a low-level format (cylinder by cylinder) otherwise try Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0 The mass media and the Internet are full of stories about used computers being sold with hard disk drives containing confidential data — banking account information, credit card numbers, social security data, human resource, accounting and other internal documents, or even restricted information concerning a company's board of directors! This confidential data should not only be safeguarded according to the strict rules, but it should also be reliably and completely destroyed when needed. You know you have deleted all the financial, corporate, and personal files, and even formatted and deleted hard disk partitions — but are they really gone from the drive? The answer is NO! Acronis DriveCleanser 6.0 guarantees the complete destruction of data on selected partitions and/or entire disks. Data destruction standards National data destruction standards: * American: DoD 5220.22-M * American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL) * American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM) * German: VSITR * Russian: Russian Standard, GOST P50739-95 Two far more powerful pre-defined algorithms offered by top information security experts: * Peter Gutmann's algorithm * Bruce Schneier's algorithm Simple, but fast algorithm to use in less important situations: * Fast A special option to create custom algorithms and save them for future usage. You can get it from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I haven't tried the Acronis Drive Cleanser, but: Open Disk Utility, select your HD, click on the erase tab Then click security options Select one of the options which suits your needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 You can download IBM/Lenovo's Secure Data Disposal tool for free here: IBM Secure Data Disposal It creates a boot floppy or ISO image with which you boot the machine and answer a few confirmation questions before it wipes the drive. It can wipe to DOD standards and save a log of its operation, or you can do a simple overwrite. As it was written by IBM it's probably as good as you can get for free. (Note - you need to install the prog. on a working Windows system first in order to create the floppy/ISO, and ignore the stuff on the webpage about it only being for IBM systems, it works on any PC.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Macs 7pass erase will wipe all readable data can i just format it with osx? would that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ Doesn't get much better than that. DBan is nice, but I'll stick with Eraser personally. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 i need a free app that will do this for me. wipe the drive and make it un recoverable. OK, mac-nipulate, you have plenty of choices here now. Or use them all, one after the other. Not even the NSA would be able to get at your data after that. Well, actually there is a tiny chance that they might by using a technique which involves special read heads which work diagonally through the magnetic coating and detects changes that are outside the normal track path, but it would give them quite a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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