Totally Wipe a Hard Drive

[Alex Antener]

You can also use "wipe" or "shred".
Check: http://www.techthrob.com/tech/securedelete.php
Rregards, A

2008/7/2 Jack Boyle <jkb973 at gmail.com>:

> 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/
>
>
>
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>> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:13:31 -0400
>> 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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>> > 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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