[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Hank Lambert]

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For partitioning, I just use fdisk. For wiping data, I use dban:
www.dban.org. It's a bootable ISO, and allows you to wipe up to 35
wipes (Guttman Method). It is freeware, not open source.

- --Hank


Kevin Korb wrote:
> If you mean wipe a disk with no data you can simply overwrite it with
> nulls like this:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1024k
>
> If you want to make sure the data is not recoverable then there are
> utilities like shred that repeatedly overwrite the disk with different
> kinds of garbage to make sure that people with a laboratory can't
> read it.
>
> If you just want to delete the partitions go into fdisk or whatever
> partitioner you use and delete them.
>
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:26:56 -0800 (PST)
> "Ram K. Singh" <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If there is a way to unformat and unpartition a hard disk.
>
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Hank Lambert, KB4MTO
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