On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Leonard den Ottolander managed to produce:
| Like writing particular bit patterns to disk repeatedly as to destroy the
| magnetic "rest fields" (what's the correct term again?). Although repeatedly
| filling the disk with (pseudo) random data should do the trick as well.
| Mi
Hi Ed, Keith,
> It should do the trick for the usual situations; however, for classified
> data there are other, more stringent, measures.
Like writing particular bit patterns to disk repeatedly as to destroy the
magnetic "rest fields" (what's the correct term again?). Although
Hi again,
> Yep. I was just responding to the comment that "/mbr" doesn't work, and
> the probable cause (wrong system, wrong argument order).
Bye the way, I hope you don't think I actually ran that command ;-).
Bye,
Hi Dave,
> > Plus that "c:\fdisk /mbr"
>
> Er, that would be "fdisk c: /mbr"
I meant "c:\>fdisk /mbr". I think the original syntax was correct. No need to
specify a drive, it's the MBR. The syntax in the original post is correct
IIRC.
> Yep. I was just responding to the com
> "Keith" == Keith Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
Keith> Well, since the topic was broached. Would doing this be a
Keith> satisfactory way of "zeroing" out the hard drive (no data retrevial
Keith> possible) if the system was being sent to salavage (sold off)?
It should do the trick fo
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> Yep. I was just responding to the comment that "/mbr" doesn't work, and
> the probable cause (wrong system, wrong argument order).
i'm perpetually amused by the number of people who want to turn their
linux boxes back into MS boxes but, hey, to each his
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:47:02PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Dave,
And back.
> That was what I was trying to tell.
Ok.
> Plus that "c:\fdisk /mbr"
Er, that would be "fdisk c: /mbr"
> does not wipe the bootsector, but instead installs a dos master boot
> loader.
Hi Dave,
> > > fdisk /mbr would do it i guess
> >
> > No such device ;-/
>
> Oh, and it's not the Linux 'fdisk'--only on the MS
> side of the house.
That was what I was trying to tell. Plus that "c:\fdisk /mbr" does not wipe
the bootsector, but instead installs a dos master
Hi Jackrabbit,
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
>
> it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I be
> able to rebuild partitions and the partition table from fdisk?
You do not need to specify a blocksize in this case. If you only want to zer
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:07:55PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
> Just curious. I've heard of entities that require triple-double dog
> security, nuclear weapons secrets or some such nonesense, have a formal
> destruction procedures for the magnetic media.
Not just that--essentially anything that's
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:04:18PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > fdisk /mbr would do it i guess
>
> No such device ;-/
This works--but I think the syntax is "fdisk c: /mbr", substituting the
right disk for 'c:'. Oh, and it's not the Linux 'fdisk'--only on the MS
side of the house.
Hi Ani,
> fdisk /mbr would do it i guess
No such device ;-/
Bye,
Leonard.
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fdisk /mbr would do it i guess
> -Original Message-
> From: Statux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 9:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MBR tool
>
> > Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clea
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Keith Morse wrote:
[snippage]
> >
> > Well, since the topic was broached. Would doing this be a satisfactory
> > way of "zeroing" out the hard drive (no data retrevial possible) if the
> > system was being sent to salavage (sold off)?
> Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clean the MBR? (and
> if possible to view it's current contents).
man fdisk
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> >
> > > if I run it like this:
> > >
> > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> > >
> > > it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that woul
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
>
> > if I run it like this:
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> >
> > it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I
> > be able to rebuild partitions and the partition tab
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> if I run it like this:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
>
> it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I
> be able to rebuild partitions and the partition table from fdisk?
ouch. boy, you really are on a miss
rpjday
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clean the MBR?
(and
> if possible to view it's current contents).
my favorite tool
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clean the MBR? (and
> if possible to view it's current contents).
my favorite tool to view the contents of a file, including things
like the MBR, is "hexdump". i suggest using both the "c" and
Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clean the MBR? (and
if possible to view it's current contents).
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