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Thumb Drive

D1gger

D1gger

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One of my coworkers asked to borrow my 2gb thumb drive to transfer some data to a print shop. Unfortunately, I had a bunch of personal data on the drive at the time, such as tax returns and a keepass password file (encrypted), so I was uncomfortable just erasing this data and handing him the drive.

I know deleting files off of a hard disk doesn't delete the data, and even a format will not truly eliminate the data, so is a USB memory stick the same?

How do I fully and completely erase data off of a thumb drive so if I lose it I don't have to panic?

We did find another memory stick for his immediate use, but the question remains.
 
Do a low-level reformat of the drive, or else delete everything from it and write new data over the entire drive (copy a music library or a couple of DVD rip sections or something onto the drive until it's fully loaded).

Note that low-level format will likely wipe out the name of the drive so when you plug it in you're going to get a generic 'USB drive' found message instead of specific device name.
 
download Dban for thumb drives and such. itll kill anything on the USB drive, but dont forget to unplug ur hard drives if ur gonna boot off a cd with Dban on it. or itll kill everything on any hard drive.
 
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