I saw a post here the other day where a person needed to get rid of the info on the hard drive, NOW! Maybe this might help some of you.
If you use a laptop with an SSD you can 'secure erase' the drive in under 4 minutes. Use a SSD in your laptop and have a bootable usb stick that has Parted Magic on it. Boot with Parted Magic (about 2 min) Choose the Erase icon on the desktop and then choose Secure Erase (under 1 min). Everything is totally gone and not recoverable. Erased to bare metal. Don't try this on a normal HDD as they tend to brick. You need to use DBAN on a normal HDD and this might take many hours in which time the feds will probably have locked you up.
Use a SSD and a usb stick with Parted Magic for a fast Secure Erase. Might save your ass!
You can get Parted Magic at most torrent sites. Do a search at Kickass torrents or Pirate Bay.
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