Ask HN: Selling laptop, how to wipe information?

1 pointsby deafcheese15년 전4 comments

I'm selling my laptop, and I'm wondering what everyone uses to wipe computers clean of personal data before passing it on.

3 comments

blhack15년 전

You want this: http://www.dban.org/

By the way, this isn't really an appropriate question for HN.

deafcheese15년 전

Thanks for the suggestion.

However, I find the other part of your comment non-constructive. If you don't think that my question is inappropriate for HN, fine. But just writing it off without giving any justification or advice doesn't do anything to improve the community.

Khao15년 전

I normally use a Linux boot disk to boot in live CD and then I format my disk and use an utility that writes random bits on the drive. I can't remember how this utility is called but I think a quick google search will give a lot of results.

BMarkmann15년 전

I've always been partial to DBAN:

http://www.dban.org/