[HLUG] hard disc shredder

[Gordon Alabaster]

I have used DBAN and now have a box waiting for my choice of Linux.
I tried to use the Interactive option but may not have selected the disk
drive properly as it came up with errors. I checked the FAQs and then
used the "autonuke" option. It just worked, doing 3 passes and then
halting doing the 4 Mbytes in an hour. It made a log file which I will
try and view on my Linux system as I could not decipher the first one
from Interactive on W98.
 
Many thanks Paul and Matthew.

Regards

Gordon.

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 16:38 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Quoting Paul Stenning <paul at vintage-radio.com>:
> 
> > I use Darik's Boot And Nuke (DBAN) which is a downloadable ISO image for
> > burning to CD.  It's built on Linux I think, and is free open source.
> > It does the multiple overwrite type disk wiping with as many passes as
> > you want (it defaults to 3).
> 
> I agree entirely with the above, it's excellent.  An organisation I  
> used to work for was a windows-only shop but they still used DBAN to  
> erase the HDDs before sending them for recycling.
> 
> M.
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> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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