Comments on: Wipe Your Hard Disk Before Lending or Giving Away

By: Rev

Rev — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:12:34 +0000

As far as I know, wiping (overwriting) USB flash drives shorten the life of the memory chips inside it. It’s a stupid and paranoid thing to wipe out a precious flash drive with multiple cycle (and probably military grade) methods when just leasing it to a friend or someone you trust well/who is computer-illiterate.

By: irjan

irjan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:50:48 +0000

Thanks a lot Ray!!!

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:14:43 +0000

What do you recommend, as far as software, so I can recover deleted data. I deleted a video file accidentally.

By: mobb

mobb — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:46:51 +0000

SO YOU could have like *400*gigs on 200gb hard disk
you format it and then put another 200gb and then recover the formated files and new files and you have 400gb extracted -theoretically-

is it possible!?
peace

By: chrix

chrix — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:48:05 +0000

Formatting a drive doesn’t erase anything but the logical structure of the disk (where are the directories, the structure of the partitions, file names.. and so on).

Physical datas are still on the disk, that’s why it’s so easy to recover stuff.

It’s quite safe to do 1 or 2 passes with random data to be sure it will be almost impossible to recover anything from the disk.

By: nishant

nishant — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:41:18 +0000

nice post..

By: Ziad

Ziad — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:18:56 +0000

Thanks raymond :) im just wondering, does anyone know any software tht i can download to recover old files n pics tht we deleted ?! for XP and Vista operating system… i want a friendly use free software! thx all :)