how do you fully clear a hard drive past deleting the file and emptying the recycle bin to ensure no trace of data can be found?
>>684413269
strong magnets?
>>684413269
Why do you want to that? Was it cheeze pizza?
Darik's Boot And Nuke
I believe you can use a program called "killdisk" you have to put it on a CD and use it as a boot device I believe. Though do note that it takes incredibly long
throw it in the garbage
>>684413573
nothing I can do manually? I remember reading a post somewhere years ago about someones old pc having loads of shit found on it by a pc repair guy
>>684413269
Google "Darik's Boot and Nuke". After doing a couple of passes with that, drill a couple of holes in it, and then you're still unsure about it, you can put it in a furnace and heat the disks till they get red.
>>684413269
Some thermite ought to do the trick
>>684413550
>>684413787
very good
zero it (takes a while tho)
Throw it in a lake.
A new HD is cheap and better than a stretch in jail.
>>684413550
this. Empty your recycle bin doesn't erase the file from your disk, just removes the addressing. The file is still there, waiting to be over-written by a new file, but programs can find it and undelete it before its overwritten.
Using DBAN does a low-level erase so that deleted files cannot be recovered.
lets say SWIM noticed belatedly an mp4 had been run from the local drive on firefox, what are the chances of this having notified the cyber police?
>>684413787
Several passes with 1's and 0's is enough. You don't need to physically destroy the thing. Christ.
Type in the console:
sudo fdisk –l
It will show you your disks and their locations.
Then do:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=<your disk location>
it might take a while. It will replace all bytes on your disk with zeros.
>>684414859
0's only...
Takes long time but it's safe.
>>684414859
That's actually the common procedure where I work for decommissioning disks. But yeah, I assume he wants to keep the disk in which case he can skip the last two steps.
Surprised no one has recommended you to delete System32
just bury it!
the question is... what OP has to hide.... why he need an advice from /b/
>>684415979
His Data.
>>684413764
sure manually is easy - you have the hard drive? you ideally want a drill and some t20 bits ( I think ). you take out like 15 screws until you get down to the platters, take those out and destroy them.
some are easy to shatter ( be careful though from shards )
if you heat them to about 1000 the metal loses its magnetic properties ( probably toxic as fuck gas from that )
take a grinder to the faces of the platters ( again be careful you don't want tiny aluminum shards in your hands or something )
Physically destroy the drive and scatter the pieces. The only 100% guaranteed way.
persaonlly, I would just hook the drive up to your computer ( like as a second drive ) . download ccleaner or something, delete everything using a secure delete, then wipe all the empty space on the drive. Basically it writes random numbers all over it.
not a big deal.
>>684415050
by console you do not mean cmd.exe
would this kill the operating system?
is there no method by which I could search specifically for the file in question and have it removed without the expense of clearing my entire hdd?
>>684418230
has the file been deleted already? If not, the answer is "yes".
Has the trash been emptied? please respond and I'll give you steps.
you can just physically destroy the thing, disassemble it, remove the disks, take a file and scratch the surface back and forth. you don't need to be overly anal about it, no need to drill trough, set on fire, shatter atomic bonds or whatever
i mean seriously, data loss due to hd damage is pretty common and pretty easy to achieve, when you want to cause said damage it's suddenly too hard?
>>684418357
forensic data recovery is pretty good, I'd personally go further than just scratching the surfaces... I'd take a grinder or something to the surfaces just for a few seconds, then trash the platters in separate places.
>>684418230
>is there no method by which I could search specifically for the file in question and have it removed without the expense of clearing my entire hdd?
No.
>>684418517
if he already deleted it, he could wipe his empty drive space.
>>684413269
delete system32
>>684413590
>mfw
Just be honest.
ok well waiting 2 minutes then I'm out. OP reply if you want instructions.
>>684418593
Not safe
>>684413269
Delete file, empty recycle bin
defrag drive
cmd
cipher /h:c:\
You are saved
>>684418843
Kek
>>684418775
I think running something like ccleaner + wiping the empty space should be fine. you don't think so?
>>684413269
keep copying a huge folder and when it gets really big delete all of them.
>>684418994
/h covers the free space only. Lrn 2 computer, clever guy
http://www.dban.org/
35 passes should do the trick
if you never want to use it again, remove the platters and rub powerful earth magnets on them.