What is the biggest concern you have when you plan to sell or donate your computer. The data residing in your hard disk. If you format the disk before donating or selling the computer, think for a while. Anybody with a data recovery software can recover the juicy info from your hard drive.
Use DBAN to securely wipes out data from your computer. And it is so secure that even government agencies and corporate are using it. If you require tool for bulk data destruction, then you can also try this. The DBAN site quotes.
"Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis."
To use this tool to wipe data from your computer. Please follow the steps given below.
- Take backup of your data in any external media.
- If you want to install Windows after wiping the data, then please ensure that you have all required drivers.
- Now boot your system with the media in which you have burned DBAN. At prompt enter AUTONUKE and hit ENTER.
- Wait till you are prompted with the black screen. This mean the operation is complete.
Now you can safely handover your system without any fear. And if you want to delete files securely in Windows environment than you may use Heidi Eraser for this.
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