Wiping Your Disk Drive Clean

LinuxSecurity.com: Everybody who owns a computer will someday need to dispose of a disk drive. Before you do, it is a good idea to cleanse the drive, so no one can read your sensitive information. Deleting files and reformatting is not sufficient; determined effort can still reveal data from a drive even after it appears to be gone. To do a more thorough job, I suggest using wipe. It's a good security practice to completely formating a drive before getting rid of your old hard drives. This article looks at some best practices in deciding how-to erase a hard drive. It recommends that user use a software called wipe but, do you have any other favorite programs.

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