Hide Your Secrets FOREVER! - Erasing Data Securely
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2019
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How can you erase data to the point where it's unrecoverable?
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**Stops everything and intensely focuses on vid**
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I like Riley doing everything! ☺️
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I just let Linus drop them.
...while they are running
Ultimate data eraser for the paranoid
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That was really well done, I think I can say it's actually one of my favorite videos on this channel.
I can finally erase my Detective Pikachu X Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction
Riley without Mustache scares me
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Excellent video very well presented. Great job, Riley! Thanks.
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yes but not a single reply to any question asked in the comments
Another nifty trick for clearing deleted data from a hard drive is to use your copy of spinrite if you have one. Delete the data then run spinrite on level 4.
This will invert every sector as it passes and then change them back again to what they originally were it does this to check that the drive is functioning properly but in the process it also rewrites the content of the drive twice over the existing data without damaging the existing data.
not long ago I gave a spare 3 terabyte drive to a friend who needed it for a CCTV system. To erase my data I formatted the drive and then around spinright on it. The driver was healthy and empty.
I once read on reddit that the best way to securely wipe a hard drive is to unscrew it, take out the platters and bend them. So I gave it a go and just as I started bending the platter it exploded into thousands of tiny shards all over my keyboard, desk, the floor, my lap, and the monitor. It also cut up my thumb and some fingers so much that they bled and left a trail of blood all the way through the house to the bathroom where I had to bandaid them up. Then it took me an hour to vacuum up all the shards but there are probably still some in my keyboard. I was lucky none got in my eyes.
I thought this was going to be a joke, I was waiting for the punchline at the end.
Hope you feel better bro
This isn't normal and they're typically safe to open
Find some very hot,molten stream and throw it in that and bury it. After breaking it into tiny shards. Would that work? Or wrap it in tin foil and out it in the microwave. Just some crazy thoughts haha
I’m feeling this new format. Giving you that sweet sweet thumbs up.
Thanks I can now successfully delete my 16 terabyte homework folder my parents keep asking about.
🏫 these day's, so much work they give you 😶
@@daseinemittens somehow me thinks it isn't really homework... unless pronhoob is a new algebraic equation.
@Paul Dybala the problem is that makes it easier for the FBI to access my private homework
*drags and drops Linus Sebastian fanart into "Homework" folder*.
What happens to them when they corrupt and cannot be deleted??
Riley was such a good addition to the team! I really like his style (I don't mean his clothes)!
Felt pretty confident when my mom and I took a drill to the 4 harddrives out of my deceased stepfather's computer. She was just gonna leave it on the curb as is.
What did your stepfather have to hide? Child porn? Wtf why would you have to hide his files to such an extent?
@@csharpcoffee Bank records, SSNs, school records, credit card numbers, website passwords. A lot of data can be found on hard drives.
VERY WELL DONE. PERFECTLY PRESTENTED THANK YOU! :)
I used to take out my drives ol' Yeller style...This is going to save me a bundle waiting a week to wipe my drive 35 times...
Wow. How did you read my mind. I needed this vid.
I absolutely love how they're trying new styles with this channel it's honestly refreshing
And by "trying new styles" you mean putting Riley on everything? 😉 I really love that too! 😀
Riley is doing really a great job here. Pls more Riley everywhere (and also more Alex)
the best way to wipe your drive is to ENCRYPT your drive. WHen you're ready to erase, assign a 128bit encryption key, then throw away the key. This makes "wiping" the drive instantaneously.
@Tcll5850 Can't you simply just transfer the descryption key to your newly installed OS?
@Tcll5850 Cant speek for NTFS but if i would need to recover one of my encrypted EXT4 filesystems the only difference is that need to mount the Luks container first. after that its the same procedure as with an unencrypted drive.
With enough time, months or even years they can finally find 128 bit key
By far the best / fastest method, yes - and good luck trying to make sense of the garbled sectors afterwards.
Overvrite drive with one feature movie and song? Till its full? And your done?
I once tried to recover data from a faulty USB drive (would crash often and leave a lot of files corrupted or undetectable) and a laptop hard drive, turns out all those video game save files, pictures from city trips with my ex-girlfriend and pornography that I thought was very naughty at the time but now know is near child's play were still there. The only thing was, I had to put it all on a 2 TB external hard drive to be able to actually store all the files that were recovered and manually filter them. Turns out that in the process of recovering files from a storage device, you also generate a lot of duplets and (sometimes due to being unreadable) junk that you cannot narrow down using an algorithm.
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2:00 So a bit represented as a range from 0 to 1 inclusive when imaging the magnetic properties of the drive can be 1.03? Does the bit also go up to 11?
Overvrite drive with one feature movie and song? Till its full? And your done?
Thanks for reminding me of that IDE hard drive that smacked me in the face a few weeks ago and is unbootable thanks to a bad format. I might need to get some IDE-SATA-USB adapters and format it so my ancient Packard-Bell has a backup drive now.
0:08 haha XD "Linus Sebastian fan art" and "where is the internet?"
That's the most complete Techquickie I ever saw.
Trim is good if you experience data loss so you could recover it again. (That happens one time for me) so that was good for me that I had Teim enabled
sweeeeeet!!!!! Nothing like some good ole tech news in the morning.
I heard a good way is to have a ready encryption at your disposal. So you can than just format it and once wipe it.
This is all well and good. I tend to buy off lease business computers. They have a system to protect sensitive data when they return the computer. They take the drive out and shred it. It is a lot quicker than overwriting the drive. You might try this only use a large hammer when you sell the computer, and it feels good. A big hammer can be very therapuetic.
Wow, I see his eyes and they are beautiful!
I work for a tech disposal company and we have wiping suites and shredders. So that's where my old drives go ;)
Also some nicer harddrives and ssds will have ISE or Instant Secure Erase, and they can be wiped instantly. Since they encrypt all data on the disk, so just wiping the encryption key is enough to full make all data unrecoverable.
I have recovered data from wiped disks, but it can take a lot of effort and needs special hardware to succeed. Also, it costs a real lot!
This was my main worry about SSDs. I'm still not confident I want to use an SSD, but this is one less thing to worry about with them at least.
The SSD part was a bit too superficial, IMHO.
Thank you for letting me know that trim isn't an acronym, most important part of this video imo.
Thanks Riley !
don't ever sell used hard drives - Drives are cheap, Data is expensive. It's not worth it in the long run
Indeed. Just destroy them, then recycle them.
Nothing wrong with selling used drives if you've wiped them. Although I bought 9 drives across separate listings on eBay recently, 6 of them had bad sectors.
@@hippopotamus86 just ask for S.M.A.R.T. of each one
@@vadnegru Doesn't always help, SMART only shows errors if it finds them. A couple of the drives showed good SMART results, but later reported bad sectors once writing large amounts of data to them. Another 3 of the drives I had bought in a single listing all had terrible write speeds which turned out to be a known problem for some Hitachi drives after x amount of powered on hours, also turned out to be very noisy. The drives I sell I do a full check with HDtune Pro which will check every sector, and also shows speed map etc.
but who doesn't want to manually physically destroy their hard drives? Hammer + drill + saw + fire + acid should about secure things.
I like to shoot them up with a rifle
I just shoot it with a shotgun or AR-15
Maybe those who want to resell the hardware?
What about using a bulk tape eraser? Sure it'll wipe out the servo tracks making the drive a brick but it's another (quick) way to secure a HDD.
AAAHHHHH THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE VID MAKES ME BLIND
I managed to format a drive and install a new OS on it and still managed to recover nearly 61% of all the old data on it. So if I want to securely delete something I allays use a 3 pass rule. Overwrite everything 3 times and it passes into legends and is gone.
1 pass is not allways enough, two is usually good enough, but on occasion some thing can still be recovered. So I use 3 passes.
I just wish that there were a quicker way to do this.
is it good enough to use 1 pass quick erase dban against recovery software like recuva etc?
I love LTT cast, but I think that Riley is far and away the most well spoken out of the cast aside from Linus. I'd love to see him do any video Linus doesn't (aside from the ones Brandon and Terran, love when those guys talk about their niches).
Great video!
Therapist: Glasses-less Riley isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Glasses-less Riley:
3:04 - Undelete tools can still recover files on unencrypted SSD's
+1 for managing to work Tim Heidecker into the video.
Me: *delete something*
My pc : It'S fReE rEaL eStAtE
en windows:
abres el símbolo de sistema como administrador
ejecutas «diskpart»
haces «list disk»
haces «select disk #» (reemplazar # con el número de disco que deseas limpiar)
haces «clean all»
tarda, depende del dispositivo y la interfaz
no se recomienda en SSD ni otro almacenamiento sólido
Fiy burning or trying to damage a hdd dosnt keep ur data safe, forensic tools can still aquire alot of info from them despite them being damaged
Make an episode explaining differents distribution of Linux (the most used). I know you explained it a little with the Linux gaming video but I'd like to see some others
Someone should make a video buing hard drives and running data recovery software like recuva and see what they can find from previous owners.
Ah yes, PESONAL SECRETS
Yeah Riley!!! We need more Riley!
Ayush Gupta you Gay for Riley?!
@@stabinghobo57 he is a good host. That's why I said that
Who doesn't love a good Riley quickie?
Loving your new hairstyle Linus!
He looks so grown up now!
Better colour on this video than usual :)
i recovered a lot of drives even after formatting to a different filesystem, the best you can do is to destroy the partition table and recreate it then format
Overvrite drive with one feature movie and song? Till its full? And your done?
I like a lot more when this guy is not making himself a clown
Where are ur glasses mate
He looks very different (not bad, just different) without the glasses... I almost didn't recognize him, then the video started playing and he spoke, and I was like, "Oh, that's Riley"
I was wondering why he looked different
Up ur as
@@nirapsingh9773 what is wrong with you?
@@aravindr4986 idk, i think i have depression and i am fat. Thanks for asking.
So then how do programs like Active@ data recovery recover data from overwritten drives?
Its weird to see Riley without his beard
I was flabbergasted by Dennis.
So ssd and mobile phone memory (ufs) work similarly like you delete sth and it actually gets deleted?
Can a partially overwritten (corrupted) file even be recovered to a point where it's useful to someone? My guess is that semi random writes that would take less time than a full wipe would suffice for most people.
Hey Linus you got a new haircut?
Riley for the win!!!! Great Video!
Which tool (except a hammer) would you recommend to wipe a NAS hdd if its broken and Windows does not recognize it anymore?
🔥 usually works wonders.
Solves nearly any problem.
Will it save my files of who I want to trade as a Laker next season??
I've given away OLD hard drives plenty of times. I just do a 1-3 pass wipe of the drive and have never had any issues. But, then again I don't store stuff that could cause me issues since, I don't do things that would cause me issues. Privacy is a joke now a days anyway. But, to each there own. I need drama in my life so, I'll find something to be concerned about. (:
What about phones? Does eMMC or SDcards have trim too?
the "dd" command does a good job of that
SHOULD BE IN WINDOWS
CIPHER /W:C/ IN prompt can also be used
overwrite 3 times
My son wraps my old hard drives in tannerite and lights it up with a bullet. That's far more entertaining than scrubbing a beat up old hard drive, unless you want to sale it.
AH! Monster! Glasses! Put on the glasses! :D
Nice info
4:30
"Editor - Not a Robot"
ha! yeah right!
Microwave it, raymond reddington taught me that
1:35 1010101 upside down is LOLOLOLOL. That's what I learnt from this video. Every day's a school day.
00:14 Thanks Riley
I will never be ashamed of my Linus Sebastian fanart.
Sauce
Active@killdisk : This program never disappointed me. One pass zeros with this program is all you need. Tried and tested from me.
Destroy the hard drive
So 3 wipes should be fine to use on mechanical drive?
What happens when you clear the data from secure eraser? Do the deleted files return? Or not?
And does secure eraser erase videos that's been deleted? These questions apply for Android phones.
0:54 Haha I see what you did there XD
Warning with SSD, at some point they change their state to read only, just to ensure data will be allways rdcoverable after a 'dead' sate, even if SSD is not seen by BIOS, normally when SSD is near failure.
Also the chips can be readed with X-Ray, but recovering last states is too much complex compared with HDD because SSD do internal re-mapping for every sector written, that is the main reason why on labortory only reach near 25 last states, as opposite to 138 last states on magnetic tradicional platter disks (HDD).
Wot
(o_o)?
Wait... Last year my PC started BSOD'ing all the time at random.
Tried everything, reinstalled Windows bit wondered why my M.2 wasn't showing in BIOS. Could still install windows and ran fine for some time. Started crashing again.
Got everything replaced under warranty - except the disc.
They tested it and shipped it back. Started crashing again. Got a new disc and it's been all good since.
Had no idea that a missing disc from BIOS indicated eminent failure. Good to know.
This guy is good
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3:39 milk was spilled here
@1:57 a bit can't be greater than 1