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Chvalov2014-11-06 19:20:28
Data recovery
Chvalov, 2014-11-06 19:20:28

Shredding files from under linux or Windows - all HDD than and how?

I sell two hard drives of 320GB each, on which there is a lot of information, both textual and graphic. It is necessary to delete all data in such a way that no one can restore them in any way, since hard beats are not for home use.
Actually, how can you quickly and reliably overwrite information with zeros a couple of times?
So far I have found Paragon Hard Disk Manager with the function of erasing data - but I don’t know if it’s worth trusting.
What can you advise from software or methods?

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Chvalov, 2014-11-13
@Chvalov

Thanks to plin2s and 3vi1_0n3 for the tip
I did this from the terminal:sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=2M

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jcmvbkbc, 2014-11-06
@jcmvbkbc

linux: shred, set on the whole device

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Dmitry, 2014-11-06
@plin2s

dd or the same badblocks in write mode.

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Sergey Petrikov, 2014-11-06
@RicoX

shred -zn10 /dev/hdb

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3vi1_0n3, 2014-11-07
@3vi1_0n3

You can do this for example (bash):

for i in {1..10}
do
  dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ваш-диск bs=1M
done

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