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

[Mark Bystry]

great! thanks guys.

so the steps would be:
1.) autonuke with boot disc
2.) format
3.) install OS

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Richard Zimmerman wrote the following on 1/30/2006 12:08 PM:
> 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.
>>
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