On Thursday 17 December 2009 16:26:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:40 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > > That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the > > thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd... > > Doesn't that depend on the contents of the disk? I don't see what's wrong > with booting a DBAN disk and letting it get on with the job overnight.
Let's look at the obvious solution then: remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new one, sell laptop. Ka-Ching! Problem solved. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com