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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: dumdumdum on August 05, 2012, 05:29 pm

Title: Formatting hard drive
Post by: dumdumdum on August 05, 2012, 05:29 pm
Hi,
I'm in need of formatting my hard drive and believe that by just using the 'format' option on windows is not enough and data can still be recoverable. could somebody suggest a way to remove everything so there's no way of recovery, possibly some software? the only software i have heard of it kill disk but i have no idea if it works
Title: Re: Formatting hard drive
Post by: anonaddict on August 06, 2012, 01:09 am
check out http://www.dban.org/

It was talked about in this thread
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=28489.0
Title: Re: Formatting hard drive
Post by: dumdumdum on August 06, 2012, 06:36 pm
nice one, missed that thread
cheers
Title: Re: Formatting hard drive
Post by: dumdumdum on August 06, 2012, 06:48 pm
Just had a quick search around and couldn't really find anything the was too relevant. Could anyone explain to me how i could boot DBAN from a USB/flash drive as my CD-Drive is broken? I am using Windows 7.
Title: Re: Formatting hard drive
Post by: anonaddict on August 06, 2012, 10:41 pm
Just had a quick search around and couldn't really find anything the was too relevant. Could anyone explain to me how i could boot DBAN from a USB/flash drive as my CD-Drive is broken? I am using Windows 7.

You can give this a try
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
Title: Re: Formatting hard drive
Post by: dumdumdum on August 07, 2012, 05:26 pm
thanks, appreciated