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How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data

  1. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, What not to do: adım 1, 1 resimden 1.
    • Here is what NOT to do:

    • Don't just delete your files. Even if you then empty the recycle bin, simple freely available tools can probably recover them.

    • Don't think that reformatting your disk will wipe it. That only resets the indexes. Most of your data will remain.

    • Likewise, don't imagine that reinstalling your operating system will do any better. That will only overwrite the start of your disk, leaving most of your data untouched.

  2. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Non-physical destruction: adım 2, 2 resimden 1. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Non-physical destruction: adım 2, 2 resimden 2.
    • Physical destruction is much the quickest, surest and most satisfying method. Even if you want to pass on the computer for re-use, fitting a new solid state disk is cheap and easy, and will make the computer run faster than ever before. But if you REALLY MUST keep the old hard disk, there is a choice of several disk wipe utilities:

    • Ccleaner will wipe a hard disk, but not the one you're booted from. You can connect your old hard disk to another computer with a USB-SATA adapter in order to wipe it.

    • You can make a bootable memory stick or CD containing DBAN, which will wipe your hard disk.

    • Both the above may leave fragments of data in remapped and hidden disk sectors. Blancco (from the same source as DBAN) is the professional disk wipe utility, carrying various government and industry standard certifications and approvals. An evaluation licence is available.

    • None of these is quick. It might take 12 - 24 hours hours for a 1TB disk. Do you really want to wait that long?

    Bonjour,

    TechTool Pro (1) pour Mac propose également l'effacement de données avec quatre possibilités de trames d'effacement et plusieurs niveaux de passe. Plus le nombre de passes est élevé, meilleur est la sécurisation de l’effacement.

    L’écrasement avec 35 passes est également connu sous le nom de Méthode de Gutmann.

    (1) : Payant, mais multifonction -> Manuel d’utilisation de TechTool Pro

    Cordialement.

    Cancan - Yanıt

  3. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Take aim!: adım 3, 1 resimden 1.
    • Take a look at your hard disk. From the lid, you should be able to make out the outline of where the disk is.

    • If in doubt, on the botton of the disk you should be able to see the motor, which directly drives the disk spindle.

    • Below the disk is the read/write head actuator spindle.

    • Note a point roughly half to three quarters of the way from the centre of the disk and its circumference. This is where you will be doing the damage!

  4. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Optional: Opening the drive: adım 4, 3 resimden 1. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Optional: Opening the drive: adım 4, 3 resimden 2. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Optional: Opening the drive: adım 4, 3 resimden 3.
    • If you have any difficulty working out where the disk is, or if you're just curious to see inside, you can unscrew the lid.

    • You will generally need a Torx screwdriver. There are normally 6 screws around the perimeter of the drive. Remove these.

    • Most laptop drives have one more screw under the label. You will need to locate it by feel, or by viewing it with the light at just the right angle.

    • Scrape away the label from around the screw head, using a craft knife or similar. Under the label there is likely to be a layer of foil. Scrape this away as well, revealing the screw head. Remove the screw.

    • Desktop drives may have more screws, which you will have to locate and remove in the same way.

    • Once you have removed all the screws you should be able to prise off the lid. A rubber seal may make it a little reluctant to come off.

    • Replace the lid and secure it with at least 2 or 3 screws before proceding to the next step.

  5. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, The hammer and nail method: adım 5, 1 resimden 1.
    • The simplest method is simply to hammer a nail through the drive, which will shatter the disk. A 25mmx2.5mm masonary nail is ideal - a larger nail will be harder to withdraw and therer will be a greater chance of shards escaping through the hole. Ordinary wood nails will simply bend.

    • Place the drive on a piece of scrap wood on a firm surface such as a concrete floor or a strong workbench. Holding the nail (preferably) with pliers, hammer it into and through the drive at the chosen point.

    • The nail doesn't have to go right through and into the scrap wood, so long as you can see that it has begun to penetrate the circuit board on the reverse of the drive.

    • If, having penetrated the top cover the nail refuses to smash or penetrate the disk it's very likely that this is one of the few having a metal platter. The alternative method described in the next step will work very well.

    • Shake the shards away from the nail before attempting to pull it out. If you used a claw hammer then you can use the claw to pull out the nail very easily, otherwise use the pliers.

    • To be sure, drive the nail through at a second point roughly diametrically opposite.

    • Cover both holes with stick tape of any sort.

  6. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Using a drill: adım 6, 2 resimden 1. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Using a drill: adım 6, 2 resimden 2.
    • If you have a pillar drill or drill press you may find this allows you to do the job more quickly. A 3 - 4mm high speed steel drill bit will do nicely.

    • Drilling through the lid and applying moderate pressure, you may feel the disk platter smash as the drill bit hits it, and likewise a second platter if there is one. Continue drilling until you come out the oter side.

    • If the platter doesn't smash even with a little extra pressure with the drill, poke a nail punch or centre punch through the hole and hit it quite hard with a hammer until you smash the platter or platters.

    • If the drill hasn't penetrated right through the drive, shake the shards away from the hole and look into it. If you can see another shiny unbroken surface, there's a second disk platter. Smash that in the same way.

    • Very old drives, in particular desktop (3.5") drives as well as a few more modern ones may have aluminium platters. You should be able to drill right through these without difficulty.

  7. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Making it safe: adım 7, 2 resimden 1. How to safely and securely destroy hard disk data, Making it safe: adım 7, 2 resimden 2.
    • The shards inside will be extremely sharp and some of them very tiny. You don't want any escaping! Before you finish, cover the holes on both sides with PVC or similar sticky tape so that no shards can escape. (Or if it makes you feel better about your poor old drive, you could use a sticking plaster!)

    • It's still possible that small shards could escape between the circuit board and the metal shell so continue to treat the drive with care. To avoid this you could unscrew and remove the circuit board before starting.

    • Full hard disk encryption is the easy way to make life much easier for yourself next time. You can use Bitlocker on Windows or Filevault on MacOS. If you use Linux, Veracrypt is available.

    • It's important that you fully encrypt your hard disk immediately after installing the operating system, and before writing any data to it or logging onto email, social media or any other websites or applications, otherwise unencrypted data may remain on your hard disk.

    • When you want to dispose of your computer or the disk in it, all you have to do is change the encryption password to something long and totally random, then destroy all record of the password.

    • Full disk encryption applied as described above is the only simple and sure way of destroying the data on an SSD.

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To reassemble your device, wait for someone to invent a time machine then take a trip to yesterday. Seriously, there’s no other way!

But if that doesn’t work for you, please dispose of the remains of your day’s work responsibly, in a manner appropriate for electronic waste.

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What about using a magnetic degausser to scramble the disk?

Jim Nicol - Yanıt

A magnetic degausser is very good if you can be sure the magnetic field it produces is strong enough. But there’s the rub. And for that reason, the UK National Cyber Security Centre recommends that it should not be used as the sole data destruction method, but that you should also smash the platters.

Philip Le Riche - Yanıt

What about just dismantling the drive and using the platters as coasters? After a few coffee cup scrapes there wouldn't be anything left to salvage.

Brian Hall - Yanıt

Yes, you can do that if it's your own disk with your own data and you're pretty sure the North Koreans aren't out to get you. A nice shiny platter will look nice on your desk, but once it gets a few coffee marks on it, it'll just look grubby. And if it's someone else's data, best to put it unquestionably beyond recall.

Philip Le Riche -

I had a Hdd which I encrypted! Trouble was that the program had to be referred to when ever I started the computer. Guess where the data corrupted?

I won't be using encryption any time soon.

Alan - Yanıt

Of course, you have to interact with the encryption program with a password or a token whenever you start your computer. That's what stops an unauthorised person accessing your data!

When you encrypt your disk it should give you a recovery key. If that didn't work it may be that the disk had failed in a way which would have made it hard to recover even unencrypted. SSDs do that sometimes.

But at the end of the day, you assess your risk in terms of the value of your data, how it might get loose and who might want it, and you put in place the risk mitigation measures that you feel will reduce the risk to a level you're comfortable to accept. That may or may not include encryption. And of course, the risk mitigation will hopefully include a suitable backup regime!

Philip Le Riche - Yanıt

Any comments on the Windows DISKPART utility??Nick R

bertie wooster - Yanıt

Sorry, but DISKPART is useless for for this purpose. You can delete the partitions, create new ones and format the disk and most of the data will still be there! Programs like EaseUS Data Recovery will still be able to recover much of the data. All formatting does is to reset the data pointers. It's like removing all the catalogues in a library and leaving the books on the shelves.

Philip Le Riche -

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