How to completely erase your hard drive
Monday, May 14, 2007
There are 3 utilities that we recommend.
1. DBAN. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis. This method is great for most purposes. http://dban.sourceforge.net/
2. EBAN. Like DBAN but if you need a statement of certification, then you must buy an EBAN contract.
3. Secure Erase (aka HDDerase). Secure Erase works by executing the in-drive Federally-approved (NIST 800-88) Secure Erase command in the ATA ANSI standard, which is implemented in all recent ATA drives greater than 15-20 GB. (A similar command in the SCSI ANSI standard is optional and not yet implemented in drives tested.) Some ATA drives also implement the standard Enhanced Secure Erase command that takes only milliseconds to complete.
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/subpgset.htm
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 7:58 PM,
