I’ve read on a linux forum site that shredding and melting a hard drive is the best way to get rid of information on it. or the next best is to find really good software and format it like 200 consecutive times. don’t really wanna do ‘neither of those. I’ve heard linux is best when when it comes to do with anything and everything about computers. like for instance, digging up old files on hard drives or formatting them. don’t remember the name of it, but I remember like a year ago, a friend had shown me this linux live cd. I think it had like a black desk top/background..?? he said it was like the next best thing to what the FBI uses. anyone know the name of that?? thanks, all
Hi,
just use “F-Disk” just type format C: and no-one can get it back as this aso does the boot sector as well. hope this helps you.
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FBI would use ‘Spinrite’.
I used ubuntu and installed ‘testdisk’ – which completely recovered deleted partitions after I installed over them. If you want to keep it like windows, go for KDE, if you want something more stable and (in my opinion) better looking, then gnome is great.
Testdisk does not need a black desktop – the desktop is superfluous, you should be able to enable repositories and type ‘sudo apt-get install testdisk’ – then when it’s done, you can type ‘testdisk’ to start the program running.
Choose from ‘distrowatch’ – I’d go with Debian (that’s because I already did and don’t know much about anything else).
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