Deleting Hard Drive on Laptop for Sale

Jumblebumble

J_B said:

The 'man in the pub' works in some high up security service IT department.

When the scrap a hard drive it goes through an industrial 'coffee grinder' (turning it to powder) to ensure all data in unrecoverable.

They obviously think a quick wipe with a load of zeroes to be insufficient!

Quite
You cannot be 100% sure that just because the GUI says it deleted everything it actually did so.
However ccleaner 3 pass is probably OK for the general public

dogmaryxx

MinuteNoodles said:

Blancco is used by governments to clean hard drives, it'll be more than sufficient.

But dban is not Blancco ( although they own it ) and was suggested in post 2

MinuteNoodles

dogmaryxx said:

MinuteNoodles said:

Blancco is used by governments to clean hard drives, it'll be more than sufficient.

But dban is not Blancco ( although they own it ) and was suggested in post 2

Yes it is. It's written by the same person. Blancco is the commercial version that came out of the DBAN project.

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marksmith11 2 said:

You have two options first you can replace your HDD or you can use wipe tools like Dban or CCleaner advanced wipe for hard drive clean.

If only someone else had mentioned these options 

TheRightOne

MinuteNoodles said:

dogmaryxx said:

MinuteNoodles said:

Blancco is used by governments to clean hard drives, it'll be more than sufficient.

But dban is not Blancco ( although they own it ) and was suggested in post 2

Yes it is. It's written by the same person. Blancco is the commercial version that came out of the DBAN project.

Darik Horn 'wrote' Blancco Drive Eraser??

MinuteNoodles

TheRightOne said:

MinuteNoodles said:

dogmaryxx said:

MinuteNoodles said:

Blancco is used by governments to clean hard drives, it'll be more than sufficient.

But dban is not Blancco ( although they own it ) and was suggested in post 2

Yes it is. It's written by the same person. Blancco is the commercial version that came out of the DBAN project.

Darik Horn 'wrote' Blancco Drive Eraser??

Yep.

DBAN is "Dariks Boot and Nuke", an open source project he did for erasing drives. In 2012 Blancco aquired DBAN and produced the commercial product Blancco Drive Eraser. The very first versions were almost indistinguishable from the open source DBAN.

Go to https://dban.org/

Scroll to the bottom of the front page and look at the very bottom of it and you'll find....

"© Darik's Boot and Nuke. 2020. DBAN is a registered trademark of Blancco Technology Group. All rights reserved."

TheRightOne

MinuteNoodles said:

TheRightOne said:

MinuteNoodles said:

dogmaryxx said:

MinuteNoodles said:

Blancco is used by governments to clean hard drives, it'll be more than sufficient.

But dban is not Blancco ( although they own it ) and was suggested in post 2

Yes it is. It's written by the same person. Blancco is the commercial version that came out of the DBAN project.

Darik Horn 'wrote' Blancco Drive Eraser??

Yep.

DBAN is "Dariks Boot and Nuke", an open source project he did for erasing drives. In 2012 Blancco aquired DBAN and produced the commercial product Blancco Drive Eraser. The very first versions were almost indistinguishable from the open source DBAN.

Go to https://dban.org/

Scroll to the bottom of the front page and look at the very bottom of it and you'll find....

"© Darik's Boot and Nuke. 2020. DBAN is a registered trademark of Blancco Technology Group. All rights reserved."

I know all about the history, as I wrote about it earlier. Blancco acquired DBAN from the Canadian company GEEP.
What I asked was if the Drive Eraser was developed by DH. You seem to think it is. I have not looked at Drive Eraser, so cannot say differently.