It claims that the NISP Operating Manual (DoD 5220.22-M) advocates overwriting hard disk drives as a secure method of media sanitation. It’s been replaced by modern standards like the NSA/CSS policy manual 9-12 storage device sanitization and destruction manual.īut like the urban legend of the alligators in the New York sewer system, the data wiping myth persists. Sample Symantec wipe disk jobs ships with Deployment Solution and can be found in the Samples job folder.Wiping standards have been debunked by the DoD. This command runs the DOS version of GDisk and wipes the first drive using the DoD standards. Instructs GDisk to perform the required wipes meeting the DoD standards. Replace disk with a number between 1 and 128. The Gdisk executable used, such as GDisk.exe (for DOS) or GDisk32.exe (for WinPE). The following table explains the GDisk command-line elements. GDisk can be run from a DOS (GDisk.exe), WinPE (GDisk32.exe or GDisk64.exe), or Linux (Gdisk) pre-boot operating system using the following syntax:

All addressable locations on the hard disk are verified in hardware using the Verify Sectors command to the disk.

All addressable locations on the hard disk are overwritten with a pseudorandom character.

All addressable locations on the hard disk are overwritten with 0xCA.

All addressable locations on the hard disk are overwritten with 0x35.

According to this standard, the following group of operations is performed six times: Department of Defense (DoD) 5220.22-M standard. GDisk’s secure disk wiping feature wipes data according to the U.S. The GDisk utility (one of the Ghost tools included with Deployment Solution 6.9 SP1 - Ghost Solution Suite 3.0) is a multipurpose disk management utility that includes a secure disk wiping feature. When reallocating hardware from one person to another, it is often important to ensure that none of the old data from the hard disk can be retrieved, even after deploying a new imaging to the computer.

How to preform a hard disk wipe using the Ghost utility called GDisk.

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