We wrote software for the Army to write and re-write
the disks . It took severals hours to clean a disk
properly.
Of course if their position was being overrun by the
enemy, they were supposed to place the removables into
a container and burn it with a thermite grenade.
Michael Madigan wrote:
burn it with a thermite grenade.
After years hearing about thermite bombs in Star Wars, I was happy to
find out years later that thermite actually exists. Gives me hope that
someone somewhere has a laser cannon. Probably them damn Eye-ranians!
Watch Brainiac on Sky1 and probably elsewhere, they have loads of fun
with thermite
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Michael Madigan wrote:
We wrote software for the Army to write and re-write the disks . It
took severals hours to clean a disk properly.
Of course if their position was being overrun by the enemy, they were
supposed to place the removables into a container and burn it with a
thermite
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Michael Madigan wrote:
burn it with a thermite grenade.
After years hearing about
I'll trust you, as I'm not old enough to remember.
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Thermite is a mixture
I've used HDScrub with good results.
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George wrote:
How do you securely erasing a hard drive before giving it away?
Any suggestions on software packages (free is good) would be greatly
appreciated.
Keeping the OS would also be good.
TIA
George
On 3/8/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you securely erasing a hard drive before giving it away?
Ideally, you have a clean copy of the OS originally installed, or a
rescue partition or Ghost image you can restore the disk to pristine
condition with. (Make sure you have bootable media
On 3/12/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/8/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you securely erasing a hard drive before giving it away?
Ideally, you have a clean copy of the OS originally installed, or a
rescue partition or Ghost image you can restore the disk to pristine
Paul said
Rare earth magnets are extremely powerfull magnets for those who don't know.
Thanks, I just wasted 1hr looking at this!
Andrew Stirling
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Keeping the OS would also be good.
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Keeping the OS would also be good.
You probably are not allowed to do that!
How about putting the disk into a USB drive box the running deleting
software on it.
Andrew Stirling
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