Erasing info on PC

spinynorman

The main issue is not just deleting the data, but deleting it securely - DBAN is the best at this - it's free, it'll wipe to US Department of Defense (sic) standards (OK it takes an age, but what's the rush?) and once done you can rest assured that your average Techie can't restore the data.

The only other way I know that's cost free involves a big nail and a sledge hammer...

jimw5798

If brighthub causing a problem then go to Microsoft Technet site. Martin will not let me publish the website but if you google ' sdelete internals suite ' and it should be the top selection. If not , then just pick off any that takes you to technet/microsoft sites

nikkie

Azrael_1701 wrote: »

While true for the most part, physical damage can still be done by software. I have written a program in the past that overrides the automatic control of the cpu fan, killing it and causing the chip to overheat. Never actually used it, just to prove it was possible. The same also holds true for hard-disks (by refusing to let them spin-down, reducing their life to weeks).

well- yeah- but I was talking about a basic user with little to no knowledge of computers- like the original poster of this thread... don't scare people now! ;-)