Trying to format my HDDs...

[Lawrence MacIntyre]

I'm assuming that you asked the wrong question, and that you don't
actually want to format the disk, but you do want to remove all of the
data on them.  If so, you want the following:

Darik's Boot and Nuke <http://dban.sourceforge.net>

Download the .iso, burn a CD from it, and from the boot prompt, select
auto-nuke.  When it boots, it wipes all of the disks that are attached
to the PC.

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 22:29 +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> Yes, you can do that with the Ubuntu live-cd (or any other live-cd's i
> would imagen).
> (sorry for the bad formatting of the email. Evolution did not want to
> comment out your mail :/ )
> 
> 
> ons 2005-01-12 klockan 21:19 +0000 skrev Ben Hodgson:
> Hey,
>  
> I apologise in advance for this being a little off topic - but I figured
> that if anyone would know, it would be you guys! I have a bunch of PCs
> that I want to get rid of and I am looking to see if there is a Linux
> distro (or anything I can just boot from CD) whose sole purpose is to
> format hard drives? Basically, I just want to have a CD that I can boot
> from that loads a utility into the RAM to fully format a hard disk.
>  
> Does such a thing exist?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> 
> 
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> 
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