I have a couple of hard disks in a computer which is to be recycled. I want the windows OS in it to remain functional, but I want to be sure that I have deleted all my personal files securely (never used the OS that much anyway and there is hardly any important info in its registry or browser). There are a number of documents that were deleted in Windows the usual way (Shift+del) and I just want to make them unrecoverable.
Its first and second partitions (sdc1 and sdc2) are vfat. I was thinking of mounting these on /mnt/scd1 (and scd2) and then doing: # dd if=/dev/zero > /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data thus overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying around. Would that be adequate? The objective is just to prevent a casual recovery, reading and copying of the data by a future user, so I don't need multiple over-writes. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i1nbkd$k5...@dough.gmane.org