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Re: Hard Drive Forensics Question
From: "Razi Shaban" <razishaban () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:44:31 +0400
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Murda Mcloud <murdamcloud () bigpond com> wrote:
Can you clarify what you mean by this?Perhaps it would be a good idea to copy+paste+delete a few very large random files on there (99.5% occupying the drive) a few times, just in case.Is this so that it can overwrite any free/unallocated space?
Yes.
Do you mean he should copy a few files that are like 90Gb in size to his drive by pasting them and then delete those files?
That works, I guess (assuming that you completely fill up the drive). However, I personally feel that it would be better to randomly generate data (random is always better) and store it on the hard drive until there is no longer any free space left, then delete the data. Several cycles of this will make it virtually impossible to recover any data from the unallocated space. I know of several scripts that will do this, they're easy to find and even easier to make. -- Razi Shaban
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