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Posted by Marlon Brown on February 12, 2007, 12:18 pm
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only thing is that I understand that the deguasser would not only format,
but it would make the HD's useless, what is not a problem in my case anyway.
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | We have to phase out and decomission several Compaq/HP servers and
> | respective hard drives. I attempted to use a tool 'maxblast' (or
> something
> | like that) in the past, and I didn't get that one to work on multiple
> hard
> | disks with unconfigured RAID.
> |
> | Two questions:
> |
> | 1)If I use the vendor tool to 'delete' an array and 'recreate' an array,
> is
> | the data on the hard drive wiped out? According to the message on the
> screen
> | it says that is the case. I am wondering if security wise, the data on
> the
> | hard drive has been destroyed for good and what it would take to recover
> it
> | in case someone with bad intentions manages to explore data from those
> hard
> | drives.
> |
> | 2)Imagine I run 'SmartStart CD' (it is just a vendor initialization
> software
> | from HP) and I run the option 'Erase System Partition'. That respective
> | option tells me that the whole data and system partition would be
> deleted
> | from the hard drive. Upon running the tool I noticed that the LED on the
> | hard drives flash very quickly and the message on the screen states that
> the
> | data has been erased. Since that happens so fast, I am wondering whether
> the
> | data has been wiped out? If I don't get an answer from people on this, I
> may
> | ask HP, however I am trying here to get an unbiased feedback.
> |
> | Thanks much,
> |
> | Marlon
> |
>
> No. Use a disk sanatizing software utility. A common utility is that
> from Norton/Symantec
> that comes with several suites and Ghost called GDisk.exe. You can
> actually set switcgh
> parameters to wipe each disk according to current DoD standards.
>
> Otherwise use a deguasser if you don't go the software wiping route.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
430 No such article
I have a deguasser here and I will use this one. That's quicker I think. The
only thing is that I understand that the deguasser would not only format,
but it would make the HD's useless, what is not a problem in my case anyway.
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | We have to phase out and decomission several Compaq/HP servers and
> | respective hard drives. I attempted to use a tool 'maxblast' (or
> something
> | like that) in the past, and I didn't get that one to work on multiple
> hard
> | disks with unconfigured RAID.
> |
> | Two questions:
> |
> | 1)If I use the vendor tool to 'delete' an array and 'recreate' an array,
> is
> | the data on the hard drive wiped out? According to the message on the
> screen
> | it says that is the case. I am wondering if security wise, the data on
> the
> | hard drive has been destroyed for good and what it would take to recover
> it
> | in case someone with bad intentions manages to explore data from those
> hard
> | drives.
> |
> | 2)Imagine I run 'SmartStart CD' (it is just a vendor initialization
> software
> | from HP) and I run the option 'Erase System Partition'. That respective
> | option tells me that the whole data and system partition would be
> deleted
> | from the hard drive. Upon running the tool I noticed that the LED on the
> | hard drives flash very quickly and the message on the screen states that
> the
> | data has been erased. Since that happens so fast, I am wondering whether
> the
> | data has been wiped out? If I don't get an answer from people on this, I
> may
> | ask HP, however I am trying here to get an unbiased feedback.
> |
> | Thanks much,
> |
> | Marlon
> |
>
> No. Use a disk sanatizing software utility. A common utility is that
> from Norton/Symantec
> that comes with several suites and Ghost called GDisk.exe. You can
> actually set switcgh
> parameters to wipe each disk according to current DoD standards.
>
> Otherwise use a deguasser if you don't go the software wiping route.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
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