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Margorie Gomoran

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:16:51 PM8/3/24

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Iv been looking into active killdisk to erase some hard drives so that I can dispose/reuse them which I can then give the certificate it produces to the customer/client on the report it says the method and time and such but also has a entry for verification percentage.
By default all methods default the percentage to 10%.
2 things raised a question:

So far, we have tried creating RAID 5, then swap the disks slots and then created a RAID 6 over them and after spending $30k in professional services, we could not recover data from the 6 HDD. This was sort of a POC in 2015.

So most are home users so it would be pictures of family the odd passport scan
A few are work machines ranging from design work to financial services and I have 2 machine that were part of a dentist office which I imagin having patients records

As an alternative to DBAN see if GitHub - martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe: nwipe secure disk eraser meets your needs.It has an iso to make a bootable medium. And if you look at the display in the box you can see that you get a display showing whether the wipe has succeeded or not. If you want evidence just take a picture of your screen.

Writing zeros to every location takes a long time. Easier, quicker and more secure to use the chisel method on those old hard drives that have no future use and you can just take a picture of before and after as evidence if you need it.

In lieu of that, when physical destruction is preferred, I use either a .45 or a 9mm pistol to take care of it. That way I get a bit of fun out of it. Of course, there are those who will ALWAYS debate the merits of one caliber over the other, but I find that in this instance both are quite effective as long as my aim is decent.

For the record I spent a few hours one day investigating the possibility of data recovery off of a a drive overwritten with zeros. There were alot of theories, but no one has yet been able to prove it is possible. There are rewards if you can.

I'm getting working experience as hardware tech guy meaning I have to repair and fix used computers daily. One of those tasks is formatting all the hard disks and we use Killdisk active@, at Work for erasing all the data.

Active@ also has a data recovery option which is one of my favorites. -recovery.com/ It's thorough, often produces results even after an entire format and partial over write. I've used this tool hundreds of times on client's deleted/lost/formatted family photos, dissertations, etc...

A commonly known one is Recuva. Not my favorite since it takes an extremely long time to scan especially since the "Deep Scan" option is the only one that seems to produce any results. It's handy when you know exactly what your looking for and need/want a live program rather than a bootable one.

All this to say that data wiping/formatting is mostly effective when drives have been wiped and over written several times, redundantly. I've never used Active@ KillDisk (My personal preference is D.B.A.N.) but surely it has various degrees of wiping.

If someone is trying to steal banking passwords, identities, etc... they aren't going to be buying USED computers in hopes that forensic level data recovery will produce thousands of fragments of data. That they then have to sifted through to see if it's enough information (assuming it exists at all) to allow them to JUST begin the real crime.

This article describes the process of changing the location where the killdisk erase certificates are saved. They can be saved to a specific directory, network share, or configured to print automatically.

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