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Wiping a hard drive


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That's one way of doing it, I guess, but even then if someone was particularly interested in seeing what was on there they could probably piece it together. As well as battering the hell out of it, I'd suggest at least formatting it before doing so.

 

I have a feeling that formatting, while it appears to wipe everything, still retains some sort of fingerprinting from its previous states. Someone with more hardware knowledge will probably be able to confirm/deny that...

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That's one way of doing it, I guess, but even then if someone was particularly interested in seeing what was on there they could probably piece it together. As well as battering the hell out of it, I'd suggest at least formatting it before doing so.

 

I have a feeling that formatting, while it appears to wipe everything, still retains some sort of fingerprinting from its previous states. Someone with more hardware knowledge will probably be able to confirm/deny that...

I read a whitepaper the other day that said it is sometimes possible to retrieve partial data from a track that had been overwritten 100 times !

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