re: Boot 'n Nuke ... or just Ghost? Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 9:18 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan Masterman (412 messages posted) Hi James, This is not the appropriate forum for your question. There are numerous programs which you can download on the internet which claim to wipe hard discs to a high security standard. You can find lots by googling. Since this appears to be a commercial operation, though, your employer would probably have to pay for a software licence. Alternatively, just delete the partition and reformat, which would cover all ordinary requirements. On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 9:09 am, james wrote: >Wiping a large number of old leased systems to ship back to Dell. Of course the >usual concern about where folks did online transactions, email their girlfriends, >et al. Assuring that the data is unrecoverable. Is re-imaging with Ghost >sufficient (ghosted system had a repartitioning plus "slow" NTFS format), or should >we use our “boot and nuke” CD before ghosting? Overkill? Boot 'n Nuke adds >1hr 50 mins to the process per PC. Written in response to: Boot 'n Nuke ... or just Ghost? (james: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 9:09 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Boot 'n Nuke ... or just Ghost? (james: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 9:09 am) re: Boot 'n Nuke ... or just Ghost? (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 9:18 am) re: Boot 'n Nuke ... or just Ghost? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 9:20 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum