[KLUG Members] Formatting a drive: Is it clean?

[Richard Zimmerman]

Bottom line - NO!!!

Use:
Darik's Boot and Nuke

'When you absolutely need to make sure the data is gone for good!' <- My 
phrase, not theirs!

 http://dban.sourceforge.net/

I HIGHLY recommend this... We at Free Geek Michiana use this to wipe 
computers from financial institutions, etc before they donate the 
machines to us.

Goose


Mark Bystry wrote:
> I have a general question. We have several old pc's here at work that 
> we are going to clean up (format) and give to our employees for home 
> use if they want them. These are really old pentium II's that are just 
> hogging up space. At one time, we had some private financial data on a 
> couple of them. Will formatting alone erase all of this or do I need 
> to "wipe" the drives? I know a majority of people are not going to be 
> able to get data off of a hard drive but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
>


-- 
Richard "Goose" Zimmerman
Safety Assistant / IT Guru
K&B Transport, Inc. - Elkhart, IN
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