Friend is going out to Italy in a month or so, and if all goes well, he's staying out there.

He's obviously not bringing his computer with him, but he wants to remotly wipe 3 drives incase he does stay.

Any software out there for that?

 

give it to you, and you wipe for him if he asks? or is that too old fashioned? precision missiles? contact russia

 

He thinks im gonna pop them in to look at the contents, lol.

 

'remotely' meaning, he is leaving his computer on? there are scripts he can execute, and there are programs, depending how computer savvy the person is... to me, this is nonsense.

P.S. Define wipe, a military wipe? of 3 hard drives? lol.. good luck =]

 

is it going to be on a live network?
is the machine going to be running.

or he could just bring the HD's with him.

 

Why doesn't he bring the hard drives with him?

 

interesting, interesting.

 

so your Miz's friend, and he doesnt trust you with his fettish pron? And why havent we seen a "what to do in Italy" thread from him?

 

 

Not me, I have way more than 3 puny hard drives full of fetish porn

 

He should take the drive with him. If it's tool late for that then he needs to find someone he trusts to wipe it for him.

 

1. yes
2. yes
3. He can't take them with him

 

there's no easy way to do this without someone physically there to do it.

How about put all the data on something like dropbox or use CrashPlan to back it up (unlimited data) and then wiping the drives?

 

You cant format the OS drive remotely.

 

He could leave the PC running remote into it and wipe the drives but he couldn't wipe the OS drive while it was running.

 

Remote desktop and just delete everything manually?

 

How paranoid is this guy?

 

Instead of a remote wipe, he could look into disk encryption.

 

then create another boot image on another drive and boot into that one.
change the boot.ini to select the new os drive then
set up a run once job that will wipe the other 3 hd's

there are programs that will do it
sdelete from www.sysinternals.com can do it, and do a DOD wipe of the drive.

 

delete system32

 

You just gave him an uber migraine lol

I'd employ linux on a boot cd/usb/hd to take care of my wiping. Boot into it, remote it, wipe the other hard drives, sleep tight

P.S. remotely connect to Windows, change boot up options, this will bring you to Linux.. or just install Linux in Windows with Wubi (separate partition obviously)

P.S.#2 If the above seems hard, you've reached the end line Grab a big hammer, go wild. He wants wiped/destroyed, what's the difference

Why is he so paranoid? He def. does not work for the gov't. What is he hiding? And unless the wipe is done with a few passes, it can be recovered. Throw a huge magnet on it

 

Yep, if they aren't the OS drive then its not a problem.

This would work also and he wouldn't need to erase the stuff.

 

Better question, why is he so paranoid that he wants them wiped clean while gone?

 

I know

I did it on purpose.

there are plenty of boot cd's with linux that would do it as well. but that is even more complex to a computer noob who is that worried about his data that i could recover no matter what he did to the drives.

 

 

this is better



I can't recover anything from a HD that had this applied to it.

 

Sounds like dude is into some shady shit...

 

Throw them in the ocean. :wink:

 

So he can't take them with him? Only reason I see is that he doesn't want to risk customs or some other law enforcement to see what is on his hard drive. Sounds shady as shit.

 

Could be

I didn't ask.

 

You can still recover data after using a hammer.

This is best.

 

not when you break it enough that you shatter the plates dispose of them in multiple garbage pails, but your way works as well.

 

computrace aka lojack for laptops... works great!