Krish said:
Lol, inb4 Kowai the Fed Makes a strike.
If thats the case, this pc is going three stories out the window into a pool.
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).
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
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.