Why should computers be erased before coming to University Surplus & Salvage?
It is the transferring department’s responsibility to eliminate all sensitive data, research data, personal identification data, software programs and operating system(s), from the computer’s hard drive, for privacy, security and because of software licensing agreements. We recommend using a wipe utility to eliminate data on hard drives. Recoverable data remains on a hard drive until the entire drive is written over multiple times. Partitioning a drive and/or formatting a drive does not erase information permanently. The Office of Software Licensing offers a free program to wipe clean a hard drive. It is Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) and it is available for Windows and Linux. To completely erase a Macintosh hard drive (OS X 10.3.x or above) you can use the Disk Utility that is built into the Macintosh operating system. After a computer is received by University Surplus & Salvage, we will verify that drives are wiped clean using a commercial program. If a hard drive is unable to be wiped
It is the transferring department’s responsibility to eliminate all sensitive data, research data, personal identification data, software programs and operating system(s), from the computer’s hard drive, for privacy, security and because of software licensing agreements. We recommend using a wipe utility to eliminate data on hard drives. Recoverable data remains on a hard drive until the entire drive is written over multiple times. Partitioning a drive and/or formatting a drive does not erase information permanently.
