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Does Installing Ubuntu Wipe Old Data?

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I have an ancient windows laptop that's going to be recycled. I reformatted the hardrive from fat32 to ext3 and installed Ubuntu on it. Does this completely clean the data or is there still a chance that info could still be recovered?

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todji (tgoglia) said : 		#1

If not, is there a good util to do so?

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#2

If you are interested in totally destroying all data on a drive so that it is impossible to recovery. I suggest you use some Hard Disk Wiping Tools. The Ultimate Boot CD comes with a lot of nice tools and utilities. I think they have a half dozen disk wiping tools.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

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todji (tgoglia) said : 		#3

I'll take that as a 'no' then. Thanks.