Hard-Drive Experiment

[Daimi]

So I'm HIGHLY interested in data recovery off of drives that have been wiped multiple times through the means of CCleaner wipe, Seatools 0 fill, and DBAN. I have two 1TB hard drives that have been wiped three times with a 3 wipe pass, and also ran on DoD Short three times, as well as filled with 0's 4 times. I'm running one more 7 wipe pass on them, and then I'm going to try ever consumer grade file recovery tool to see if I can pull any files off of them, with my test after two thee pass wipes I pulled 21 files off of one, and 3 off of another. But my goal is to wipe them so many times that the bull's eye will be blank (the thing in the center of the HD) because apparently it can be taken apart in a clean room, and the data in the middle of that can be reconstructed. But, if you wipe it enough it will apparently be gone. So lets test that.

I'll update this with my findings if anyone is interested in the future.

@Ambien
@Krish - you never reply to my shit boi you wanna catch these hands?

 

[Ambien]

I'm interested in seeing the findings afterwards.

 

[Daimi]

I'm interested in seeing the findings afterwards.

Alright bruh and if this still pulls files after ALL these wipes I'm probably going to drill the drive, and bend it, then through it in a lake tied to a brick.

 

[Krish]

Lol, inb4 Kowai the Fed Makes a strike.

 

[Gen]

Pretty interested in this, show us what you find man.

 

[Daimi]

Lol, inb4 Kowai the Fed Makes a strike.

If thats the case, this pc is going three stories out the window into a pool.

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Alright small little update... I downloaded Parted Magic which is a great freeware OS that loads on a USB, and it has a ton of utilities, and even has DBAN pre-installed. Also, if you have an SSD you can wipe it from here too (it wiped my SSD in about 5 seconds). But the best thing is you can still use your pc when wiping your hard drives because the OS is on the usb, and it has pre-installed stuff like firefox, and also adobe flash player so you can watch movies or youtube or do whatever you would normally do on your pc (besides gaming).

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I have one more 1TB hard drive to do after this one, I'm doing them one at a time because more than one will make it go hella slow (13kbs to be precise which takes about 42 hours).

@Ambien
@Krish

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First hard drive has successfully ran through the DoD 5220.22-M method which was 7 passes. This method insures all software based recovery is impossible, and that most if not all hardware based recovery is impossible. I actually spoke with a data recovery specialist (buddy of mine for 8 years), he was saying that he has tried puling data off drives after that method with external hardware means, and couldn't pull anything off it that was legible, so bonus for me. Right now, I'm running through the second hard drive with the same method, and I have just started.

This one is taking considerably longer because it had a ton of games and stuff on it (about 600GB of stuff). The reason the other one didn't take so long is because that hard drive was sitting for about three months untouched after a previous DBAN wipe, I just ran one on it just to make certain that it was wiped completely. Also for my SSD I ran the ATA Secure Erase method on it which sends a spike of voltage on the drive effectively resetting the nand, and making it go back to factory defaults (takes about 10 seconds to complete), so data recovery on that is pretty much impossible.

@Ambien
@Krish - my ngga reply ;-;
@Circuit - Maybe you'll find this interesting as you're quite the active person in the tech scene.

 

[Ambien]

Spooky hacker shit, fuck feds

 

[Replicate]

@Kowai what os is that? looks odd

 

[Gen]

This thread is way 2spooky4me


jk i'm a fed, @Kowai put ur hands up.

 

[Daimi]

@Kowai what os is that? looks odd

Its a linux distro called Parted Magic, its about 450mb and you put it onto a usb or a CD to boot it, pretty much it has a ton of tools for repair, and disk erase such as that fork of DBAN, and it also has veracrypt and of course google chrome and firefox, which I'm using to access forum korner while its erasing my hard drives.

 

[Replicate]

Its a linux distro called Parted Magic, its about 450mb and you put it onto a usb or a CD to boot it, pretty much it has a ton of tools for repair, and disk erase such as that fork of DBAN, and it also has veracrypt and of course google chrome and firefox, which I'm using to access forum korner while its erasing my hard drives.

So you can still browse while you nuke your HDD? Great idea!

 

[Daimi]

So you can still browse while you nuke your HDD? Great idea!

Yep it is pretty handy it runs right off this little USB stick, and also it has memtest64 to test ram, which is nice and all of these tools usually have to be ran on their own so that means no multi-tasking, but the parted magic team took them and made it possible to run all of them at one time if you so wish. And of course it has the capability of doing an ATA secure erase command to wipe an SSDs nand to factory settings.

Here are some of the useful things it has:

FTP Client
Firefox
Chrome
TrueCrypt
VeraCrypt
IRC
Hard Disk Health Inspection

At least those are the ones I'd use anyway.