On 6 October 2011 18:46, Rob Malpass <li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > Yes this old chestnut again. Like most of us I guess, I have quite a few > old hdds and we're now in chuck away mood. Physically I'll be disposing of > these in as environmentally friendly a way as I can but destroying data is, > as I remember, a bit tricky. I know data can be recovered even if you wipe > the partition etc so here's my plan - any ideas how robust this is?? > > Essentially without a safe data shredding program, I'm going to use > truecrypt to create an encrypted partition over whatever data was there > beforehand. AFAIK this must overwrite what was there with a blank drive > (not just a new partition table) which could only be accessed if they > guessed my truecrypt encrypted password. So at best, someone could only > ever get back to the blank encrypted drive - not the ntfs partition that was > there before I "formatted" it with truecrypt. > > I guess anything's possible but how decent a solution is this?
Recovering data from wiped drives is not going to be easy, if possible at all. Just write zero's or random data to it and be happy. -- Philip Stubbs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
