Slacking off on promises...

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Imparcial

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I promised a friend I'd give him one of my old hard drives. Of course, I have to wipe it for him. Since I am paranoid, I did the "Guten-whatever" method, 30 times for 0's, 30 times for 1's, and 30 times random.

It's been thirty or so minutes now...All I wanna do is sleep. This program is manual, so I'm kind of fucked.

I popped in an old drive I said I would give to a friend on Monday...He needed it quick, so I promised.

I have midterms on Tuesday, and I'm about to fall alseep right now. I wish I didn't slack off on promises.

The bitch is, I have another one I have to wipe and give to him, but he's getting that shit later, to hell with that! I'm tired enough as it is.

Has anyone here ever slacked off on a promise, and then have it bite them in the ass later?

EDIT: Finally, last part, now I can sleep.
 
Why you'd ever need to zero a drive more than once, outside of a DoD classified environment, is well beyond me. You know it's almost impossible to recover data from a once zeroed drive. Even with professional data recovery equipment, right?

What ever did you have on that drive, Stager?
 
Nothing, really. Just schoolwork, and some personal, non-pornographic images; that was it. I turst the kid 100%; I just don't want the drive to be exploited if he gets rid of it.

FYI: The FBI standard for not being able to recover any data is having one bit overwrit 9 times, but I'm pretty sure they are lying, so I did 30. I don't know if the future owner of that drive would have incredible tools...That drive has nothing on it that the FBI could use.
 
I already said that I am wiping it like this in case a future owner has some serious recovery tools, or if he ever sends the drive in to have his data recovered that HE lost.

Now, can we please get back on topic?!
 
Wow dude, you must have some serious issues. First off, a used hard drive is like an old pussy. Once it gets old you throw it out. You don't pass it from generation to generation. You friend seems to have no $ so I do not think he is going to be getting read of the drive. Second, the FBI is not going to care about a bunch of stupid personal pictures and some high school kid homework. Third, if the drives ever goes bad I am sure your friend won't have the $ to send the drive to some place to get his porn recovered.

In conclusion, you have nothing to worry about. Just give the fucking drive away.
 
I don't know how many times I have to say this: The FBI was not of a concern to me, the future owners besides my friend may have some kick ass recovery tools...And I don't want that shit getting out.

I was kind enough to leave a demo version of Unreal Tournament an d Descent 3 on there, as well as a few other games. Maybe I should give him FreeSpace 1 and 2...he used to have some copies, but they were lost :sad:.
 
I guess you didn't read any of that. :sad:

You could've done a normal mid level format, had exactly the same results and saved a lot of time. Overwriting the disk more than once does basically NOTHING to protect against recovery in a normal enviroment. Unless you have some uber data recovery software from the likes of the NSA or FBI, and it's used in conjunction with special hardware. (magnetics)

After a normal zeroing, your friend would've only had about .1% chance of recovering your data. Even then, he'd have to know exactly what he was looking for, AND use special equipment. (read: NOT SuperHappyMagicRecoveryTool Xp that he downloaded off P2P.)


Next time, save yourself the wasted time, and pointless redundancy, and just do a normal single pass zeroing.
 
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