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Author:  kelly182237 [ September 23rd, 2009, 9:28 ]
Post subject:  hard drive format software which is the best

what is the very best software for formating a hard drive i do want the very best security standard when a hard drive is formated every bit of data is gone for good and no data software will get it back i have used dban and killdisk i am sure there is better out there

Author:  kelly182237 [ September 24th, 2009, 10:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: hard drive format software which is the best

so all you people dont format hard drives only data recovery ??? ok then what is the best software for data recovery

Author:  N.C. [ September 24th, 2009, 13:57 ]
Post subject:  Re: hard drive format software which is the best

kelly182237 wrote:
so all you people dont format hard drives only data recovery ??? ok then what is the best software for data recovery


:mrgreen:

A simple zerofill is the 99.999% solution.
(The 0.001% are in the re-allocation spare sectors, if the drive have some bads....
But you can reach these sectors for cleaning only with special sw+hw complex wich is expensive for this minimal mess. :D )

Janos

Author:  kelly182237 [ September 24th, 2009, 14:45 ]
Post subject:  Re: hard drive format software which is the best

al last one person has give me a answere right what is the best software to use for this i have use as below any comments
1 dban
2 killdisk
3 ??
4 ??

Author:  N.C. [ September 24th, 2009, 17:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: hard drive format software which is the best

kelly182237 wrote:
al last one person has give me a answere right what is the best software to use for this i have use as below any comments
1 dban
2 killdisk
3 ??
4 ??



1. dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/[DRIVE TO ERASE] -y0 -e1 -v
2. dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/[DRIVE TO ERASE] -y0 -e1 -v
3. dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/[DRIVE TO ERASE] -y0 -e1 -v
4. dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/[DRIVE TO ERASE] -y0 -e1 -v
(5. badblocks -vvw /dev/[DRIVE TO ERASE])

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