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Anonymous09/23/25, 15:45No.2946536
how to make a storage drive completely irrecoverable before disposing of it ?
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Anon09/23/25, 15:52No.2946538
Depends on the storage type, but fire is pretty universal.Alternatively you can use DBAN or something similar to run DoD-spec wiping which in theory should completely eliminate all the data on the drive while leaving the drive itself usable.
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Anon09/23/25, 15:56No.2946539
Send it to space where it can be rekt by solar flares and cosmic radiation n shit. It definitely won’t work after reentry.
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Anon09/23/25, 16:10No.2946541
DoD has a protocol for wiping with random writes 37 times over or so before they use essentially a large drill press to pulverize the platters
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Anon09/23/25, 18:01No.2946568
Write zeros to the drive, swipe a huge electromagnet over it, then physical destruction. Not even nation-states are going to be able to recover useful data from that.
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Anon09/23/25, 20:08No.2946584
Tell the NSA it has the Epstein client list on it
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Anon09/23/25, 22:43No.2946607
Encryption wipe it
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Anon09/24/25, 00:51No.2946625
Why would you need to completely wipe it? If you've got nothing to hide then youve got no reason to wipe it
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Anon09/24/25, 01:52No.2946635
1. be someone nobody would care about doing nothing anything would care about
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Anon09/24/25, 05:20No.2946663
A hard drive?
Take it apart, and chuck the disk platters into the ocean. The data is on the fragile surface layer of the disks, and any kind of tarnish will ruin it. You can sand it off. You can use acid. You can bury it in the garden. Just don't protect them from harm.An sd card or ssd drive?
Melt it.
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Anon09/24/25, 13:31No.2946724
fill it with zeros a few times then throw it in a black hole
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Anon09/24/25, 21:43No.2946790
Drill holes through it
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Anon09/24/25, 23:42No.2946824
Smash the living shit out of it with a sledge hammer. But you should zero fill it at least before hand.There is a good program called Macrowrit Data Wiper Pro that I use. It's not free though. It has up to 35x overwrite capability (Peter Gutmann's Algorithm). There is DoD 5220.28-STD (7 passes), 5220.22-M (3 passes), fill with zero & ones, fill with psudo-random, fill with zero. You can wipe free space only, the recycle bin or the entire drive or disk.Another good piece of software is Active KillDisk. It's more expensive than Macrowrit but it used to have a bootable DVD/CD now USB key that you could use so you didn't have to be within Windows. It was not free obviously. Don't know what is free or open source out there that can do this. Would be worth researching if there is such a solution.PS, do this overnight while you're sleeping. Depending on the drive size it could take a long time...
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Anon09/25/25, 00:45No.2946837
This question seems so stupid. How is "smash it into a million pieces and toss it in a few trash cans" not the only answer?
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Anon09/25/25, 03:50No.2946871
A single pass of zeroes is unrecoverable. Flat out. No "unrecoverable unless you have nation-state budget" caveat, it is flat-out impossible to recover data that's been overwritten by anything. Very old (like before you were born old) hard drives may have had recoverable bits and pieces IN THEORY, but modern drives already have to employ borderline magical levels of precision and extensive error correction in order to work at all.Regardless of what you choose to wipe it with, be that all zeroes, ones, a pattern, or random values, there's no known technology that can recover what was on there before. As far as I can find, all of the "you have to go over it 20 times with random data" paranoia stems from a single paper from the 80s. And that wasn't even saying recovery was possible, just theories on how it MIGHT be possible and ideas on what would be needed to truly wipe data if it were.
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Anon09/25/25, 21:33No.2947029
I hooked my grindstone up to a petrol engine and just grind them to dust
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Anon09/26/25, 01:17No.2947059
At delete the extra word at the end that I accidentally left there after rewriting the last part of the post if you're going to spam it like a retard
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Anon10/05/25, 03:31No.2948853
nigger
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Anon10/05/25, 03:41No.2948856
Bleachbit. If it was good enough to save Hillary, good enough for me. Never use SSD's.https://www.bleachbit.org/downloadhttps://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-stifles-investigation-hillary-clinton
https://www.wsj.com/video/clinton-bleachbit-controversy-journalpedia/58A31249-7241-4660-8924-A08F83E8821D
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Anon10/07/25, 21:20No.2949476
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
to overwrite everything with 0
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sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx
to overwrite everything with gibberish
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Anon10/08/25, 11:00No.2949582
Put it on a grinder wheel and turn it into toxic powder.
Fast, you know it worked, totally irrecoverable. Also remember RAM memory and BIOS memory are all recoverable as well
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Anon10/08/25, 13:35No.2949603
best opsec
