generalnewbie Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 Howdy what is the best way to format so that... no recovery of the HD can be done... i usually just do the standard format in dos.. but.. was wondering if there was a more effective way to do this that wouldnt leave any trace or files behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 kintamanate Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 ..so no recovery of the HD can be come? open up your comp, take out the hard drives. find a really big hammer..smash..smash..smash.. and there you go, no possible recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nomis_nehc Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 low level format? but of course, the feds could use some wacked out hardware and sniff out some of that illegal stuff ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vinh Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 Or B) you could send all your computer hardware to my place :devious: :pirate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 devobitch Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 format will always leave stuff what u want is to wipe the drive it writes all 0's then all 1's then all 0's a number of times that is only way to erase the drive even hiting it with hammer may not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 generalnewbie Posted July 5, 2002 Author Share Posted July 5, 2002 that theres no way to completely FORMAT A HD... that it will always leave behind something for the FEDs to track? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest deadzombie Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Fire with a good soild accelerant works good for those hard to erase drives;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mooker Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 You can d/l some utilities that will do a format that meets DOD (Department of Defense) standards so that the data is unretrievable. I did a quick search on google for "erase disk dod" and this one program popped up that looks like it'll do what you need. There's several programs out there that will serve the same purpose, so look around if you want. http://www.killdisk.com Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hurting101 Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Originally posted by generalnewbie that it will always leave behind something for the FEDs to track? Check your hard drive brand and go to their website to see if there's software that wil write all 0s (like devobitch said). EG: Fujitsu has it on their site. BTW, are the FEDs going to be looking through your hard drive or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 username Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 the best way is to have your bood disk a CD-ROM, much faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tesseract Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 if you format a HD so that it has nothing but zeros, it would seem like the computer would not know where to start/stop writing and/or reading the HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fili Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Try this, just found it on Google http://www.east-tec.com/dsksanit/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DerkPY Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 In Dos. format C: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Winston Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 FORMAT C: /U the switch /u means unconditional that means it clears all clusters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 generalnewbie Posted July 6, 2002 Author Share Posted July 6, 2002 better safe than sorry! plus i was gonna sell my HD because i got a new 120 gig so... this made me think of the dangers... anyways thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dismuter Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Just nuke the offending hard drive. :ninja: Now that is low low low level format! Right down to the atom. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DeleteMePlease Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Try hard-drive killer does thw trick but i usually use format c:/u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sailgreg Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Originally posted by Winston FORMAT C: /U the switch /u means unconditional that means it clears all clusters That works to a point but I used some programs and still got some of the data off the drive :) After the data has been deleted and written over a few times (7 is recomended) it is very hard to get back, but if you really want to be safe, throw the drive in a nice hot fire :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zivan56 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 If your bios has a "Low Format HDD" it is the best tool, it is the only true "format", nothing will ever be recovered. This can also be done professionally but its around $40. Dont know how long it would take with standard drives though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrOmango Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 SO EVEN tho i format normaly, and install windows xp, will it slow down than when i format completly using this "Low Format HDD"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrOmango Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 well??? :sleeping: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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