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  1. #1

    data recovery software

    Hello,

    sorry to keep bothering you guys...but i wasn't able to get my laptop to run any of the disk wiping software.


    i used sonys recovery cd to restore it to factory setting..it is suppose to wipe the C: out..

    i'm trying to figure out if it was able to make it impossible to recover older files so i need some software to test it.

    please suggest some

    thanks

    in the mean time..im going to download and try as many as i can..

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    Download.com: "data recovery"


    As far as software for wiping data.. I recommend the following:

    Eraser

    DBAN
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    WARNING ***DBAN*** KILLS/ERASES YOUR DISK COMPLETLY!!!!!!

    USE XTREME CAUTION WITH THIS APP!!!!!!!!

    Tinyurl is the answer for posting long urls!!!

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    Yes, be careful when using this utility and know what you're doing first. Great to use before giving/selling your hard drive to someone.


    For the number of passes.. 3 is said to be enough to stop software recovery, and 7 for hardware recovery.

    (The US Department of Defense standard is 7!)
    "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein

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    Originally posted by The Dude
    WARNING ***DBAN*** KILLS/ERASES YOUR DISK COMPLETLY!!!!!!

    USE XTREME CAUTION WITH THIS APP!!!!!!!!
    lols...thanks for telling me now.. i already did it..luckily i had no issues..

    although i'm a linux n00b...i can figure out the basics.. i used the dod long method took forever too..

    when using sony vaio recovery cd i made, it had to create a new partition etc. it did everything automatically which is good.

    i feel great now

    thanks everyone for your help

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    we use a nice little floppy here @ work called "gdisk" standard DOD wipe (7 passes).
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    Gdisk is a handy utility, it comes with Ghost.
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    You can use a live linux cd and do:

    shred -n10 /dev/hda (/dev/sda, /dev/hdb.. whatever)

    The above will do a few passes.

    "man shred" for more information.

    Otherwise, you can just use dd:

    dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda

    or

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

    "man dd" for more information.

    (NOTE: These both will kill data off the drive you specify it, please use caution.)
    Jason

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    now,how many partitions you can see?

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    Originally posted by ChrisTech
    we use a nice little floppy here @ work called "gdisk" standard DOD wipe (7 passes).

    although not really an issue here i suspect, its been suggested that the 7 passes might not be enough to *completely* erase all traces of data..

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    Here at the computer maintenance shop on campus, we have some nice software utilities. One lets us recover files (even from formatted drives depending on the format). We recover a lot of data off of bad floppy disks, bad cd's, and hard drives that no longer boot to a working operating system.

    We also have a nice drive tester that will test hard drives thouroughly and will perform a DOD wipe on it. (Separate piece of hardware, not attached to a computer).

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