Consider adding more RAM also if you can, should find it cost only a few fuck alls for an old laptop. What make is it?
My experience is that older RAM is more pricey than the current standard as it gets phased out of production in favour of the newer higher spec. i.e. DDR £££ > DDR2 ££ > DDR3 £
Quote from: slackline on November 27, 2012, 09:32:18 amMy experience is that older RAM is more pricey than the current standard as it gets phased out of production in favour of the newer higher spec. i.e. DDR £££ > DDR2 ££ > DDR3 £True if its unusual RAM, I've had this in an old Dell tower than used weird RAM, however my reasoning is that an average 32bit laptop that is 3-5 years old is likely to have shipped with either 0.5 or 1gb of RAM. To max out to 4gb (or whatever it can take) at the time of purchase would have been ££££, now is likely to be £ (as long as it's common RAM as you say)
With a soft cloth?
That may not necessarily mean that data has been wiped from the hard-drive, it could just be that the reference to the files location has been removed.Its also one of many good reasons to keep OS and data on separate partitions.
Unless I'm missing something he's just wanting to get it in a clean state for his rents to use without being bombarded with penis enlargement popups and stumbling across folders full of Jenna Jameson. I doubt his parents will actively seek to recover his old files?
It's an old Dell Inspiron 1525 running Windows Vista (?). They won't need a higher spec than it is already so no need to add extra RAM or anything.I'm sorry I have no idea what discs/partitions it has.Luke's right that they won't be actively searching for old files so I just want peace of mind that nothing unsavoury will pop up. So if I have the original install/recover discs I just need to pop them in, follow the instructions and it will return to how it was out of the box?
So if I have the original install/recover discs I just need to pop them in, follow the instructions and it will return to how it was out of the box?
It's an old Dell Inspiron 1525 running Windows Vista (?).
I'm sorry I have no idea what discs/partitions it has.
Dariks over writes every byte with a random selection of bits - not just the references. How does your software recover that - genuinely interested in this.
Quote from: rosmat on November 28, 2012, 08:33:50 pmDariks over writes every byte with a random selection of bits - not just the references. How does your software recover that - genuinely interested in this.when you have a friend who works for police computer forensics, you can recover anything no seriously, The software I use which you can buy online will pretty much recover anything, I tested it by wiping a hard drive with 7 passes on every byte with 9 random numbers on every bit, and I still managed to recover old credit card info. Even Mr unclesomebody who is very good with computers and knows how to wipe drives like you wouldn't believe, I ran my software on his and we pulled back entire films which he had no idea he had ever downloaded.Im not 100% on how the software works myself, just my ploice friend told me about it and I was interested in seeing it work and it does, to be honest its mainly used for pulling images that have been viewed on internet, I was reading on internet about the government hard drives, they say they only way to truly destroy all info is to incinerate the drives they use...All I would say, is not everyone knows what they are doing so the likely hood of anyone recovering any info from your drive is pretty low, but personally I would just burn the drive and stick a new one in just to be sure
sorry but if dariks is so good, how come on there site it says: No guarantee that data is removed Limited hardware support (e.g. no RAID dismantling) No customer support
Quote from: neil h on November 29, 2012, 08:51:13 amQuote from: rosmat on November 28, 2012, 08:33:50 pmDariks over writes every byte with a random selection of bits - not just the references. How does your software recover that - genuinely interested in this.when you have a friend who works for police computer forensics, you can recover anything no seriously, The software I use which you can buy online will pretty much recover anything, I tested it by wiping a hard drive with 7 passes on every byte with 9 random numbers on every bit, and I still managed to recover old credit card info. Even Mr unclesomebody who is very good with computers and knows how to wipe drives like you wouldn't believe, I ran my software on his and we pulled back entire films which he had no idea he had ever downloaded.Im not 100% on how the software works myself, just my ploice friend told me about it and I was interested in seeing it work and it does, to be honest its mainly used for pulling images that have been viewed on internet, I was reading on internet about the government hard drives, they say they only way to truly destroy all info is to incinerate the drives they use...All I would say, is not everyone knows what they are doing so the likely hood of anyone recovering any info from your drive is pretty low, but personally I would just burn the drive and stick a new one in just to be sureThanks, interesting info.