Como destruir los datos de un disco duro.

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Most of the time you want to avoid destroying your data. But eventually you will actually want to destroy it. For instance, if you were selling your hard drive, complete PC or Laptop on such a service as Craigslist or eBay; you would want to make sure that person doesn’t have access to your files, email or personal info. Even if you fdisk your drive and format it, that’s not enough.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bought computers or drives full of this information. Fortunately for those people, I’m not malicious. And fortunately for you, I’m going to show you a great program.
(Check out this article on destroying data on memory cards from digital cameras, phones, etc.)
Darik’s Boot and Nuke! DBAN for short.. This little program packs a mean punch and will completely wipe your disk based on your preference of level. You can download in either floppy or CDrom formats. Once you boot up you will have some options (please make note of the warning!):
Typing in autonuke and pressing enter will wipe the data on every disk in the system its booting in with the DoD Short Pass method. That’s 3x pass, which should be good enough for most people.
Pressing the enter key will present you with this screen:

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