Erase Drive Contents

[ecshandle]

Hello all,

I was hoping you could enlighten me as to the methods used during the 'Sanitize Hard Drive' tool and how effective it is against recovery attempts.

What kinds of recovery attempts can still be used, if any? To whom would you recommend this tool's usage? In what scenarios is it designed for?

Thanks in advance!

[fwilson]

ecshandle,

The Sanitize Hard Drive tool is written to DOD Sanitize specs.  Any recovery efforts on a drive that has been Sanitized will fail.

In this method there are 3 write passes done on the entire hard drive, pass 1 and 2 are specific, different patterns. Pass 3 is a random pattern and pass 4 is to verify the random pattern is written to the entire drive.

-Fred

[ecshandle]

Just what i was looking for. TY.

Is this info in any Service Center documentation by chance?

[ecshandle]

Answered my own question, I found the Advanced User Guide PDF.

[fwilson]

ecshandle,

I was just about to respond but you beat me to it. 

-Fred