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    by tiancum ·

    Is “Wipe Drive” software efficiant enough to clear ALL data from your hard drive including malware and all other memory contained on it? If Not, what is the BEST way of making a hard drive as clean as it was out of the factory?

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    • #3336508

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      by glyall ·

      In reply to WipeDrive

      yes it is if you wipe the drive at less 3 time (passes). I can wipe it up to 12 time

      you need to use fdisk and format the drive to install a new OS

      go to the following site for more info
      http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive_command_line_parameters.php

      good luck

    • #3338019

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      by choppit ·

      In reply to WipeDrive

      To make the drive as clean as new, you’d really need to perform a low level format using the manufacturers utilities, but it’s not recommended. FDISK will allow you to remove the partitions, but won’t achieve the above. Alternatively you can use data wiping tools to overwrite the data repeatedly. I use DBAN http://dban.sourceforge.net/

    • #3337991

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      by wlbowers ·

      In reply to WipeDrive

      To prevent data recovery it is recommended to write to the drive multiple times with random patterns.

      There are several programs that will do this type of wipe.

      Some are reported to work better than others. This page has a link to several.

      http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml

      Good Luck Lee

    • #3337924

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      by razz2 ·

      In reply to WipeDrive

      The simple answer is yes, if used properly. And , the previous posted link to all of the securedelete programs list all very good utilities.

      My choice for free utilities is the KillDisk utility. They have a free version, and a version that ..well… is not free.

      http://www.killdisk.com/

      DBAN is also good.

      Good Luck,

      razz

    • #3348593

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      by seanmcpherson ·

      In reply to WipeDrive

      The NSA uses Wipe Drive so I’d bet no one could get a thing off of it.

    • #3349272

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      by tiancum ·

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