Hard Drive Destruction Tips

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For those that are interested in throwing away a drive or even just killing any possible recovery of files on it here is my suggested method.

You want to first zero write the drive.

http://www.killdisk.com/

Then use a crypter like truecrypt.

http://www.truecrypt.org

After that the info on the drive should be gone and unrecoverable.

Ah, Killdisk, from Bruce Schneier.

A little off-topic I know, and although it doesn't say it on that download page,
but he was one of the design team of TwoFish, that well respected encryption engine.

His response to a blog in 2005, included 'Even from a theoretical perspective, Twofish isn't even remotely broken.'

Having said that, using Killdisk, (and I didn't see it at the download site), would probably not prevent you from formatting and using the drive again would it?

But having read about the capability of Killdisk, maybe just using it on its own, would be enough?