[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[NorthLondon John]

Darik's Boot and Nuke
http://dban.sourceforge.net/

HTH

John

On 24 May 2004, at 12:01, FORSTER, David wrote:

> 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.

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