We actually used a hard drive shredder for defective drives that could not be erased easily. That thing went through 200 drives in about 10 minutes. Pretty cool to watch, think "wood chipper for hard drives" :)
-----Original Message----- From: amilabs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Erasing a hard disk easily I have a bunch of old computers I would like to donate. Old laptops with win 95/98 on them and some old tower desktops all circa 1995-2k. I would like to know if I can just use a magnet to completely wipe out the data for obvious security reasons. I have heard about the disk erasers like active kill and Perl utilities for this but with the ability of data ghosting etc. is this enough? Can I use a big magnet like a speaker magnet or something like a degasser to just wipe out the data without having to boot these old boxes and go through all the extra work. Thanks _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html