<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 15:24, hput via ubuntu-users <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Anyone here that can coach me a little about how to go about getting<br>
the disks securely wiped.<br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">How confident are you with downloading an .iso file and correctly writing it to CD or a USB flash drive / memory stick ? And then booting your computer with the CD/USB flash drive/ memory stick?<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If you are not confident, start asking questions and I will try to oblige.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If you are confident, continue reading...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">To completely wipe a hard disk drive II use dban -- downloaded from <a href="https://dban.org/">https://dban.org/</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If all I wanted to do was to delete all the partitions on a drive and create a new partition table on it, I would use gparted - <a href="https://gparted.org/">https://gparted.org/</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>