Trying to format my HDDs...

[Ben Hodgson]

Thanks....DBAN downloaded, burnt and wiping now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence MacIntyre" <macintyrelp at ornl.gov>
To: <nyberg.kent at spray.se>
Cc: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: Trying to format my HDDs...


> 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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