OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most
>> dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or
>> some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data?
>>
>> Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to
>> every storage location?
>
>
I haven´t done this task from Linux, but if you´ve got access to a windows
computer (or VM)  and you can install the drive into an external USB
enclosure, use this GPL program
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/

FC
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