I usually whack the circuit-board with a hammer after de-installing, drill a hole through the platters, and run strong magnets over them too. <div><br></div><div><div>-Rob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jeremy MountainJohnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.mountainjohnson@gmail.com">jeremy.mountainjohnson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">dc3dd wipe=/dev/<drive><br><br>or<br><br>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive><br>..or replace with zero with urandom for randomness. <br>
<br>These will do a 1-pass to the entire disk with zeros. You can even confirm with a hexeditor. If someone still gets your residual data by physically playing around with the platters in a clean environment they probably deserve it =)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br clear="all">--<br>Jeremy MountainJohnson<br><a href="mailto:Jeremy.MountainJohnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jeremy.MountainJohnson@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjensen@apache.org" target="_blank">jjensen@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I have a few older PCs that I want to wipe the drives very well and<br>
donate. Googling, I see quite a few apps to do so. What are current<br>
top recs and approaches any of you have done?<br>
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