Totally Wipe a Hard Drive

[Jack Boyle]

If you want to totally and irrecoverably wipe everything from a hard disk,
deleting all partitions along the way, you might consider Darik's Boot and
Nuke ("DBAN").

But read the instructions carefully, as I believe the default is to wipe all
disks in the computer!

http://dban.sourceforge.net/



On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:00 AM, <edubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> From: "Greg Reagle" <greagle at citidc.com>
> Subject: RE: Totally Wipe a Hard Drive
> To: <that1tyguy at aol.com>,       <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> In order to answer your question, I need to know what you want to
> accomplish.  Reducing the entries in a bootloader (e.g. Grub, Lilo) list
> is very different from erasing a partition.
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of that1tyguy at aol.com
> > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:32 AM
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> > Subject: Totally Wipe a Hard Drive
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> > What is the easiest way to clean a partition completely? It seems as
> if
> > the hard drive has multiple OS's installed. I would like to clean it
> > totally off as I don't use any of the extra ones and also I don't like
> how
> > you have the list when your computer starts.
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