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    m17 data destroying

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by martynpd, Jan 6, 2010.

  1. martynpd

    martynpd Notebook Consultant

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    going to sell my hdd in my laptop but i dont want to lose the system partition.

    is it possible to data destroy only a partition and not the whole thing? if so what program? thanks
     
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    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    Disk Manager in Windows.
     
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    martynpd Notebook Consultant

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    yes but can you make it so data is unrecoverable?
     
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    Only possible way to do that is degauss the whole thing. I'm guess your looking for a dban program that does partitions only and I don't know of one. Then again I haven't played with dban in a while maybe there are some new options.
     
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    ok thanks for the help
     
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    fusionsenses The Unbannable

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    Anything is recoverable.
    Even 0 format the hd 7 times, people can still recover it.
    It depends how hard do you want to make it to be recoverable.
    Usually, format and delete partition is good enough unless you got very sensitive information in there.
    If not, google 0 format, which is to write 0s all over the drive which takes a long time compare to format. That should be enough to stop non-physical based recovery.
     
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