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Your data is overwritten with zeroes with verification. All drives wiped to US Dept of Defense Standard 5220.22-M Data Rescue Labs Secure Data Deletion service will completely erase the files from your digital media (hard drives) in a manner that will prevent them from ever being recovered by computer forensics. However, if you’re preparing a system for retirement to charity or any other organization, this obviously makes you more vulnerable to data theft.ĭata Rescue Labs addresses this problem by using a factory low-level reformat process that simply leaves nothing to recover.

However a computer specialist would be able to recover most or all the data that was on the disk before the reformat.įor those who accidentally reformat a hard disk, being able to recover most or all the data that was on the disk is a good thing. It makes it much more difficult to recover the files. It is recommended to wipe clean the hard drive before it is discarded, sold, or donated as a security measure.Formatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the address tables. Hard Drive Wiping services by Data Rescue Labs, will completely over write all information on the hard drive. There are fees associated with 3-pass wipes.74% of discarded PC hard drives contain private data that can be easily read and recovered… even if the drive has been reformatted. If the wipe fails, the hard drive will be shredded. This method is both Department of Defense 5220.22-M and NIST 800-88 compliant. 3-Pass Wipe: Software is used on hard drives to overwrite all addressable storage and indexing locations on the drive three times with zeros (0x00), complement (0xFF) and random characters and then verified.

This is a standard process that is done to all reusable hard drives that we receive, free of charge.

1-Pass Wipe: Software is used on the hard drive to overwrite all addressable storage and indexing locations on the drive one time with zeros (0x00) and then verified.

There are fees associated with Hard drive destruction, please email for more information regarding fees. For small batch walk-in hard drive destruction, hard drives are placed inside a specialized machine and a conical punch inside the unit delivers 12,000 pounds of hydraulic force to the drive, causing catastrophic trauma to the hard drive’s chassis, destroying its internal platter, and is then shredded. Shredding is done in our secure facility. For large batch hard drive destruction, hard drives are shredded in our industrial shredder.

Hard Drive Destruction: Hard drives are destroyed according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Special Publication 800-88 Guidelines for Media Sanitization.