I used DBAN to erase my old harddrive. How many times should I overwrite ?

cocovan

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Using DBAN to erase my harddrive, I used the RCMP option, wherein the harddrive was overwritten 8 times. I could use the Guttman option, where the harddrive is overwritten 35 times. Is that necessary ?
 

Casey

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a simple format of the drive is good enough depending what you are trying to do and/or what you are trying to hide, are u just trying to erase stuff off a harddrive so it is not accessible any more ever again?if so format the drive and then put files on it, and hten format and repeat 4-6 times, this will fragment the drive and overwrite the files making it difficult for the best of programs to pull data off of but like always it is never perfect and some of the best people can gather data off of them one way or another
 

Ooops

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The fact that you have done this suggests that you had data you did not want to be found. Your efforts so far will be more than sufficient to hide data from parents/ new owner of your old computer or whatever.Unlss you are trying to hide something really important from the law you will be fine.
 

Bob Bob

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Doing a reformat, as other suggest, is not fine. The more often data is overwritten the harder it becomes for others to recover.
 
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