On 6 October 2011 18:46, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Yes this old chestnut again. Like most of us I guess, I have quite a few
> old hdds and we're now in chuck away mood. Physically I'll be disposing of
> these in as environmentally friendly a way as I can but destroying data is,
> as I remember, a bit tricky. I know data can be recovered even if you wipe
> the partition etc so here's my plan - any ideas how robust this is??
>
> Essentially without a safe data shredding program, I'm going to use
> truecrypt to create an encrypted partition over whatever data was there
> beforehand. AFAIK this must overwrite what was there with a blank drive
> (not just a new partition table) which could only be accessed if they
> guessed my truecrypt encrypted password. So at best, someone could only
> ever get back to the blank encrypted drive - not the ntfs partition that was
> there before I "formatted" it with truecrypt.
>
> I guess anything's possible but how decent a solution is this?
Recovering data from wiped drives is not going to be easy, if possible
at all. Just write zero's or random data to it and be happy.
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