Clean Server Harddrive Before Scraping

[Guest Pat Hall]

Need to make sure the harddrive of a server is not readable (without

superhuman effort) after a server is scrapped.

I've been reading about Low level disk format (not used on modern drives)

and zero-fill utilities. Some Zero-fill say you have to get the one from the

manufacturer of the drives/server and others say you can use any generic one.

Has anyone every done what I need to do? All servers are running Windows

2000 oe 2003.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Clean Server Harddrive Before Scraping

 

Hello Pat,

 

There exists some freeware wipe tools like:

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.13-HDD-Wipe-Tool/

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Need to make sure the harddrive of a server is not readable (without

> superhuman effort) after a server is scrapped.

> I've been reading about Low level disk format (not used on modern

> drives)

> and zero-fill utilities. Some Zero-fill say you have to get the one

> from the

> manufacturer of the drives/server and others say you can use any

> generic one.

> Has anyone every done what I need to do? All servers are running

> Windows

> 2000 oe 2003.

[Guest Anthony]

Re: Clean Server Harddrive Before Scraping

 

You could have a look at sysinternals SDelete,

Anthony, http://www.airdesk.co.uk

 

 

 

"Pat Hall" <PatHall@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:57AF7D4E-7F7C-4AB3-A4F9-D2B16BFB8C35@microsoft.com...

> Need to make sure the harddrive of a server is not readable (without

> superhuman effort) after a server is scrapped.

> I've been reading about Low level disk format (not used on modern drives)

> and zero-fill utilities. Some Zero-fill say you have to get the one from

> the

> manufacturer of the drives/server and others say you can use any generic

> one.

> Has anyone every done what I need to do? All servers are running Windows

> 2000 oe 2003.

[Guest Jack Doyle]

Re: Clean Server Harddrive Before Scraping

 

Pat Hall wrote:

> Need to make sure the harddrive of a server is not readable (without

> superhuman effort) after a server is scrapped.

> I've been reading about Low level disk format (not used on modern drives)

> and zero-fill utilities. Some Zero-fill say you have to get the one from the

> manufacturer of the drives/server and others say you can use any generic one.

> Has anyone every done what I need to do? All servers are running Windows

> 2000 oe 2003.

 

Here is a great, free, utility. Hope this helps.

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

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Jack Doyle, Systems Engineer

ScriptLogic Corporation

http://www.scriptlogic.com