Originally posted by Mordac
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If it's free, assume that you are getting limited functionality.
Why bother paying to wipe the disk when anyone buying the machine for re-use will (if they have any sense) buy a new disk anyway. I was involved in "fixing" a situation whereby lots of bank customers' data was left on a supposedly wiped disk, which was left in a server sold on Ebay.
My point being, if you want certainty, smash the disk as much as you can, if you give away a working drive it *might* give up some of your secrets.
Things that dont' overwrite the data include normal formats, and simply deleting files.
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