We're a government contractor, and have a bunch of iPaq, Toshiba pocketPC
units we're no longer using.. We use Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) on
desktop/laptop harddrives prior to excessing, and I wonder if there is
something similar for WindowsMobile systems.. A googling of "PPC secure wipe"
gives me a few links to forums where the suggestion is to do a hard reset,
but AFAIK, the data is still there, and nothing else apparent for PPCs... The
boss wants me to get a big drill and bore some holes in them, which obviously
would work, but I'm loathe to do that without getting some expert opinion on
a better fix for securely wiping these otherwise perfectly usable pdas before
we excess them....

LVDave

Hello, Dave ! Is your company, by any chance, planning on selling these
units, after you finish decomissioning them ? I'm a freelance developer and
I've got a consultance project and I need some (cheap and not very fancy)
PDA's for some testing. It'd be wonderful if I could get some of them !

Thanks for a reply and sorry for not being able to provide an answer to your
original question.

Ionut

"LVDave" <LVDave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EE620E7D-4707-4DE8-9C0B-397BC3E3FCB6@microsoft.com...
> We're a government contractor, and have a bunch of iPaq, Toshiba pocketPC
> units we're no longer using.. We use Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) on
> desktop/laptop harddrives prior to excessing, and I wonder if there is
> something similar for WindowsMobile systems.. A googling of "PPC secure
> wipe"
> gives me a few links to forums where the suggestion is to do a hard reset,
> but AFAIK, the data is still there, and nothing else apparent for PPCs...
> The
> boss wants me to get a big drill and bore some holes in them, which
> obviously
> would work, but I'm loathe to do that without getting some expert opinion
> on
> a better fix for securely wiping these otherwise perfectly usable pdas
> before
> we excess them....
>
> LVDave

Well as I said, we are a gov contractor, and the units are gov property. We
process the units paperwork-wise, send the paperwork to the gov agency we
work for, and they arrange for, what I believe to be, Liquidation Services,
to come by and pick up.. We currently have a flock of old Dell GX270 systems
that should be picked up today.. Sorry..

LVDave

"Ionut" wrote:

> Hello, Dave ! Is your company, by any chance, planning on selling these
> units, after you finish decomissioning them ? I'm a freelance developer and
> I've got a consultance project and I need some (cheap and not very fancy)
> PDA's for some testing. It'd be wonderful if I could get some of them !
>
> Thanks for a reply and sorry for not being able to provide an answer to your
> original question.
>
> Ionut
>
> "LVDave" <LVDave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EE620E7D-4707-4DE8-9C0B-397BC3E3FCB6@microsoft.com...
> > We're a government contractor, and have a bunch of iPaq, Toshiba pocketPC
> > units we're no longer using.. We use Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) on
> > desktop/laptop harddrives prior to excessing, and I wonder if there is
> > something similar for WindowsMobile systems.. A googling of "PPC secure
> > wipe"
> > gives me a few links to forums where the suggestion is to do a hard reset,
> > but AFAIK, the data is still there, and nothing else apparent for PPCs...
> > The
> > boss wants me to get a big drill and bore some holes in them, which
> > obviously
> > would work, but I'm loathe to do that without getting some expert opinion
> > on
> > a better fix for securely wiping these otherwise perfectly usable pdas
> > before
> > we excess them....
> >
> > LVDave
>
>