[clug] Hard disk destruction

[Michael Hirt]

On 30/06/2009, at 11:44 , Brendan Jurd <direvus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a "few" [1] hard disks that need to be destroyed in such a
> manner as to make data recovery impossible.
>
> I thought the esteemed members of this list might have some insight
> into this problem, which after all, has a number of potentially
> spectacular solutions =)


I can recommend darik's boot and nuke.  http://www.dban.org/

Open source boot disk with different HDD erasure options.

Have used it many times to wipe sensitive data from company HDD's  
prior to sending PC's off for auction.

Michael.