Hi, Barry!
My $.02 here. 1.) You may fdisk your drive and reformat all of it as
FAT32. 2.) If you can find the manual of your hard disks, there is
almost always a way of wiping them out electronically (either
shortcircuiting an IC or applying power with a jumper switch).
-Manuel.
"Barry L. Kline" wrote:
>
> I have a number of PC's that are going off lease and will be sent back
> to be turned into dog food. Before they leave I want to wipe the hard
> drives. Although there's nothing on them that requires a
> military-style wipe (e.g. destroy with a hammer), I would like to take
> a pass or two over the drive.
>
> My first thought was to boot up with Tom's boot/root disk and do:
>
> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
>
> which would, in my warped view of the world, continue to copy random
> data over the hard drive. Unfortunately, when I issue that command,
> not much happens. I get some data from if but nothing appears to go
> to of.
>
> So, what't the quick-and-dirty drive wiping technique used by those
> who love Linux?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Barry
>
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