In article <noemailhere-F9BBB5.17123730072008@news.mts.net>, The NewGuy <noemailhere@please.comm> wrote:
> When you zero out the data it can take quite a while. Several passes > takes hours for most hard drives. I was wondering if it helps the > security aspect to change the partitioning scheme in Disk Utility. One > could partition in Guid then Apple Partition Map then MBR in less than a > minute. But does it make any difference in the ability for others to > extract data off the hard drive? If not, is there another way of > quickly making a hard drive difficult to read without zeroing out data?
No. Forensic techniques don't rely, or even need, partition data. If you want a fast way to securely delete all the data on the drive, dismantle it and destroy the platters.
