[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[FORSTER, David]

Hi,

I'm sure this has come up before and it's probably quite a common thing, but
my googling is obviously not up to scratch this morning!! Can one of you
kind folks help?

I want to perform a secure wipe of a disk. You know the type of thing where
you overwrite the data on the disk with (pseudo)random bytes before marking
it as deleted in the FAT (or equivalent). The disk in question has a single
formatted partition (not sure if it's FAT32 or NTFS) and I want to erase all
the data securely, I don't care if I lose the partition table or not because
it will be repartitioned etc. anyway.

Ideally I would like to be able to use a Knoppix CD to do this, and if
anyone can suggest a method that I can use which will either wipe individual
files OR whole disks then that would be the icing on the cake :o)

Thanks,
David.
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