Darik's Boot and Nuke Vs Kill Disk?

[stardom744]

Which is better? I plan on using dban then afterwards, use killdisk to erase the harddrive then give to my sister.

[Lusher]

  stardom744 said:

Which is better? I plan on using dban then afterwards, use killdisk to erase the harddrive then give to my sister.

Overkill. Or does your sister work for the NSA /Homeland security or someother security governmental organization so you has the resources to recover and you have data stored of national importance that she is going to waste the time to try to recover?

[DKAngel]

microwave works just wonders

[VPS]

DBAN

[LightIdea]

  stardom744 said:

Which is better? I plan on using dban then afterwards, use killdisk to erase the harddrive then give to my sister.

Well then stop going to 4chan and 12chan and you won't have to worry about this!

:rofl:

[VPS]

  stardom744 said:

Which is better? I plan on using dban then afterwards, use killdisk to erase the harddrive then give to my sister.

using killdisk is pointless if you are going to use DBAN

if you want that much security just select the -guttman overwrite- in DBAN

[1Frothy]

Been using DBAN and it's great. (Y)

[HeadlessHorseman]

_{DBAN is great, but has problems with SCSI RAID arrays. DBAN is better suited for SINGLE, JBOD and Master/Slave arrangements. Killdisk 4.1 (the CD/DOS-bootable version) takes care of RAID-0 arrays (and presumably RAID-1 and RAID-5) with ease. SO, if your nukeing workstations, you'll probably be OK using DBAN to wipe IDE, EIDE, PATA and SATA, but get Killdisk to take care of those interfaces AND your SCSI controllers that don't support SINGLE or JBOD.}

[+BudMan MVC]

"then give to my sister. "

QFT - "Overkill. Or does your sister work for the NSA"

Its your sister, as a courtesy to her so she doesn't find any of your "cute kitty pictures" I could see doing a "clean" install of whatever OS your running. And to make sure it is clean of any malware, etc. But to be honest I really don't see the point of doing any sort of zero write to the drive.

A normal clean install would remove all pointers to anything of yours what so ever, be it websites you visited your "kitty" pictures, and the like. Sure without a zero write it would be possible for her to run some undelete software and recover any files not overwritten in the install of the OS files as you do the clean install. if its just a data drive, then a simple format would be more than sufficient when giving the drive to a family member. Unless you think your sister might go looking for your kitty pictures?

But since your giving it to family the zero write is clearly overkill -- unless of course she is working for a gov agency and your hiding something said agency shouldn't know, or maybe its the other way around and you store the US Arsenal Launch codes on your system?? And you suspect your sister is a member of some terrorist org? ;)

[AJerman]

Ehh, it's not a bad idea to do a zero overwrite on the disk before you give it to someone else. You never know what they'll end up doing with it, or whose hands it'll be in. It could be considered overkill, but if you have anything that you consider sensitive, it's good practice regardless. Now, DBAN should have plenty of options to wipe the disk as quickly or as thoroughly as you'd like. I don't see what using two apps would do to make it more secure than just using DBAN at your chosen security level.

[Miuku.]

Guys, it's an ancient thread that was bumped up by a spambot :)

[AJerman]

  On 17/01/2012 at 20:44, MiukuMac said:

Guys, it's an ancient thread that was bumped up by a spambot :)

Damn! It's more than ancient. 2007! :laugh:

[+BudMan MVC]

Those damn spambots ;) Normally I check post dates, maybe we could get a feature where if start of thread is over X number of days it warns you of that before you post ;) Something like thread was start X days ago, sure you want to post..

[AJerman]

  On 17/01/2012 at 21:08, BudMan said:

Those damn spambots ;) Normally I check post dates, maybe we could get a feature where if start of thread is over X number of days it warns you of that before you post ;) Something like thread was start X days ago, sure you want to post..

Wouldn't be difficult to implement, and I think it's a great idea. Just a red banner that pops up when a topic is very old. Probably even better if it recognizes that there was a large gap between posts, that way it wouldn't be triggered for long lasting threads.

[Azusa]

  On 19/09/2007 at 03:02, EchoNoise said:

Well then stop going to 4chan and 12chan and you won't have to worry about this!

:rofl:

i know what boards you visited lol.