'formatting' a hard drive will not erase data

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   Many people think that 'formatting' a hard drive will wipe out all the data so 
it cannot be recovered

Not so. Even if you format your hard drive, the data on the hard drive can still be retreived.

To prevent the possibility of future recovery, use a third-party, 
low-level hard drive formatting tool, such as Killdisk (downloadable at no 
charge from www.killdisk.com) or DBAN (a linux utility) to overwrite data on the hard drive with a 
random sequence of 1's and 0's. 

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	Many people think that 'formatting' a hard drive will wipe out all the data so it cannot be recovered Not so. Even if you format your hard drive, the data on the hard drive can still be retreived. To prevent the possibility of future recovery, use a third-party, low-level hard drive formatting tool, such as Killdisk (downloadable at no charge from www.killdisk.com) or DBAN (a linux utility) to overwrite data on the hard drive with a random sequence of 1's and 0's.

Admin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Administrator Root Administrator Joined: 23 Jun 2009 Location: Qatar Online Status: Offline Posts: 714	Post Options Post Reply Quote Admin Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 2010 at 10:22pm
	A complete tutorial is provided in our thread Secure Erasing Harddisk data using DBAN.

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