Can you still copy a file from a drive which has been wiped with DBAN via Guttman method 35 pass wipe?
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:43 am
Some paranoid people claim that it is possible to recover a file which has been wiped on a disk with Darik's Boot And Nuke (DBAN) http://www.dban.org/ using the Gutmann method : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method by writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.
I was wondering is there a way to copy free space "with recoverable files" (according to paranoid members on a forum) from a drive which has been wiped with DBAN with the Guttman wiping method, so you can use a faster and more reliable drive to recover files which were overwritten 35+ times?
If you use basic or more advance data recovery programs to recover files from a drive over written with the Guttman method via DBAN, the drive would probably have its motors burn out, circuit board failure or drive crash on the platters if it is a older or already dieing drive before a data recovery program can find anything or a significant amount of info.
Plus, criminals probably would not want to invest so much time into data recovery when they can just do something simpler like find a drive that has not been overwritten or encrypted in a dumpster.
I was wondering is there a way to copy free space "with recoverable files" (according to paranoid members on a forum) from a drive which has been wiped with DBAN with the Guttman wiping method, so you can use a faster and more reliable drive to recover files which were overwritten 35+ times?
If you use basic or more advance data recovery programs to recover files from a drive over written with the Guttman method via DBAN, the drive would probably have its motors burn out, circuit board failure or drive crash on the platters if it is a older or already dieing drive before a data recovery program can find anything or a significant amount of info.
Plus, criminals probably would not want to invest so much time into data recovery when they can just do something simpler like find a drive that has not been overwritten or encrypted in a dumpster.