I’ve got a little netbook that I’ve decided to sell (HP2133). Although I’ve not used it much, I am a bit concerned that I need to erase everything thoroughly before passing it on. I’ve run DBAN’s “autonuke” and am about to reinstall the original SUSE operating system on it (I had put Win7 on but have migrated the licence to my new computer).

Does this sound as if I’ve taken enough steps to ensure no one can hack into deleted documents, passwords, personal information, etc.

IT people, all advice gratefully received 🙂
Thank you in advance.

You’ll need a tin foil hat to to complete the protection

Autonuke will have done the job I think.

It definitely looks the business and a quick Google suggests that it does the trick. I might run it twice and then put the OS on – hopefully belt and braces approach.

if you run Autonuke twice it exactly undoes what it did the first time completely restoring the HDD image.

It’s ok, most people will want to put their own porn on there rather than looking at yours.

OK … I won’t run it again 🙂
I was also looking at Wipedrive – $20 but ultra secure by the look of it and can do iPods, external HDs, etc. Might be worth the investment. I am a little paranoid about security (although not for any particularly good reason I hasten to add!).

Got to go and eat a hog roast at the Christmas Market in Manchester now, but will look in again later … thanks for the comments.

Take out the disc. Smash it up. Job done.

wot druidh sed if you feel there’s any data on there you don’t want someone to recover.

if you run Autonuke twice it exactly undoes what it did the first time completely restoring the HDD image

Hahaha. Nonsense! Those programmes stripe a pattrn of data over the whole volume. Running it twice could never restore the volume, just makes the original data even less readable.

Run the military standard seven pass option to be sure nobody can ever recover data.

Hahaha. Nonsense! Those programmes stripe a pattrn of data over the whole volume. Running it twice could never restore the volume, just makes the original data even less readable.

I suspect he wasn’t serious 🙂

Hahaha. Nonsense! Those programmes stripe a pattrn of data over the whole volume. Running it twice could never restore the volume, just makes the original data even less readable.

I suspect he wasn’t serious

He’s serious about outbuildings though! Who would use Cellotex when building a shed? 😆

Or was it Kingspan?

see what little you know spongebob!

It was Xtratherm 😉

Anyway, the shed will fall down, bruneep says so.

@ Stoner

Ha ha..

Best geeky IT joke of the day so far….

@ OP

DBANS will wipe everything no problem.

Have a look at this ZDNet article on Secure Erase

You’ve answered your own question, DBAN is the daddy here.

Did you say you wanted to do this properly?

😀

This is the way to be sure. Hard Drive Shredder.

Just out of interest, do you have a buyer ready or a price in mind?

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