[Lancaster] Re: Wiping hard drives

[Ken Hough]

Andy,

Thanks. I've got a copy of Tom's Root Boot Disk and so will try.

I take it that the procedure writes stuff to ramdomly selected parts of 
a drive, rather than writing zeros to all parts.

Regards

Ken Hough

Andy Baxter wrote:
> On 2004.05.05 20:02, Tim Churchill wrote:
> 
>> I could send Ken (email) a copy of Killdisk - it writes zeros to any
>> hard drive, boots from the floppy (DOS), and is only 649Kb. I'd do it
>> myself, but am snowed under with work at present, and the PCs will
>> need physically cleaning out - they have the dust of ages in them so
>> want stripping down and re-assembling.
> 
> 
> Or else get a copy of tom's root boot disk from: http://www.toms.net/ 
> rb/, boot from floppy using this, and then do cat /dev/random > /dev/ 
> hdx a few times? (where hdx is the relevant disk device - e.g. hda,  
> hdb, hdc, hdd)
> 
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