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Old 05-20-2010, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MelZ View Post
At very least you should degauss the hard drive, and no deleting or reformatting are not acceptable alternatives.
I always though degauss was for the monitor and defrag was for the hard drive. Defrag will move the files around to different sectors and make it hard to recover the data but if the file was contiguous it could still be recovered.

I still have every hard drive I have ever owned and I have done a low level format on them when not in use. I use to have a program that wipes the drive clean and then writes 1's to all the tracks and then over writes that with 0's. I think it does the entire drive 3 times but for the life of me I cannot currently find the program.