This is the new look website of BusyByte Computer and Business services.

BusyByte is the business name of Craig Talbot. I have used this name for over 20 years when working various different projects which I have done over the years in the computer industry in Perth when I am am not teaching or working for other people.

Currently this is mainly a landing page for my blog which I hope to start using to document things I have learned while working with ICT in my teaching role in various Primary schools around Perth. I prefer to have my own blog as opposed to using Facebook or Twitter as it gives me more control and information over who comes to see my website and who leaves comments.

As well as teaching I also work for a food company as their primary IT support and data analysis person on a 12 month contract which has been running for over 6 years now.

In the last 20 years I have worked in a number of roles in the computer and IT industry in Australia, mostly in Perth. My main experience is with accounting and business databases mainly for businesses which run warehouses and distribution operations. In the last 12 years I have spent a lot of my time working with Microsoft Access and Excel which are the main tools I have used and use today to create specialist applications for data collection, storage and analysis.

This website uses the latest version of WordPress which is an excellent and very easy to setup and maintain system for blog style websites.

Write zeroes to drive

Posted on 29/12/2011 by CRT

If you have to send a hard drive somewhere for repair or dispose of it and you can still access it is sometimes needed to quickly clear off the data on the drive. One way to do this is format a drive and writing zeroes to it. In Vista or Windows 7 this is now quite simple. First,make sure the drive is mounted with a drive letter say e: in Disk Management and then in a elevated command prompt ie. Run As administrator, type the following:

format e: /fs:NTFS /p:2

This command will write 2 passes of zeroes to the drive and then format it as NTFS. It will take quite a while on a terabyte or larger drive. While not perfect, for most uses this should be enough to deter snoops as most software recovery programs will find it hard to recover anything from a drive treated this way.

If you are really worried about data security then use DBAN from its boot disk to wipe the drive fully and securely. Or just bash the drive with a hammer or some such before disposal.

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