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AntMan530

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I know reformating is the beginning of deleting, but it doesnt do it permanently. Is there another way to do it without destorying the hard disk?

We're a non profit and we're donating all of our computers to a church. There were sensitive information on it, but I've formatted the hard drives, my supervisors are saying that's not enough.

 
Maxtor's Maxblast had a feature where you can completely overwrite the drive. Before formatting you could have used any one of several software data shredders. It supposedly takes about 7 overwrites before the data is completely unrecoverable.
 
DBAN is what I use. You can make a bootable floppy, which makes it easy to do several computers.

EDIT: DBAN has several data destruction methods, including writing the hard drive with all 0's, all 1's, random data, and a combination of several passes of each. It makes data virtually unrecoverable.
 
The only way to really do it is to destroy the hard drive. Short of that, use the hard drive maker's zero-fill (aka low-level format) utility. Use it more than once if you like.
 
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