OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?
Frank Murphy (Frankly3d)
frankly3d at gmail.com
Fri May 29 11:57:24 UTC 2009
Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most
> dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or
> some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data?
>
> Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to
> every storage location?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Cochran
>
Anglegrinder or Drill lots of holes.
FRank
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