Anyone familiar with totalling wiping a laptop hard-drive?

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  1. Journo Tyke

    Journo Tyke Well-Known Member

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    I've tried downloading Killdisk and DBAN today but can't get either to work.

    Just looking to finally get rid of my old laptop I hadn't turned on in an age. Agreed to sell it to a company I found online for £30 but worried about data on there.

    With the DBAN got the laptop to startup via a CD that had the DBAN download on but it didn't go to the correct screen to enable me to set the thing going.

    Any help appreciated, cheers.
     
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    What've you been doing on it, you naughty boy?

    I'm not sure what program to use, because I'm not sure that anything properly wipes it. I imagine if you format it and they see it's blank (if it appears blank), they'll not go all CSI on it. The likelihood is they'll process hundreds of computers a week and won't have time to dick about.
     
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    Do they need the computer as a whole? Could you remove the hard drive? I took mine out and drilled a hole in it before I sent it away to be recycled
     
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    Haha, nothing, first time I switched it on today for about 18 months.

    There are a couple of programs that do totally fry it - I just can't get them to work right.
     
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    hope this helps
     
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    If only I did. It could have saved me a few months without download privileges.

    Tee Hee!
     
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    sDelete is pretty good. Our engineers use it to make sure sensitive financial data is erased from APACS servers. We do advise that hard drives should be destroyed but if this isn't an option sDelete usually suffices.
     
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    Take the drive out

    and put it in a USB caddy and run the wiping software on another computer.
     
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