Utility to wipe hard drive?
What utility can I use to zero the hard drive? I don't want to just format or repartition. I need to completely obliterate the data.
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Another option to what 2damncommon suggested:
System Rescue CD You can also use the dd command in Linux but that is kinda tricky to use so you have to be a bit careful. |
Depending on the options you use with dd command it can take a few minutes to several hours depending on those options. Also even longer if drive is USB connected.
Brian |
Assuming the drive that you want to shred is /dev/hda.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda conv=notrunc Then repeat the commands several times. |
I second what Electro wrote, and further, boot with
http://www.efense.com/helix write a shell script according to this post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=362506 like the example about half way down the OP for seven passes of random characters over the entire disk. |
Personally I like using shred (from a Live CD or USB memory maybe??); man shred
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