thanks bob! On May 16, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Bob Miller wrote:
Kenneth Silverman wrote:
hi you guys! i am trying to completely "swipe" the hard disk clean on my desktop pc, the one that neal and joseph helped me partition with linux and windows in january. i managed to wipe the windows side clean by formatting but haven't erased the knoppix side or taken the partition out.
Use the shred command.
1. Boot your KNOPPIX CD. 2. Open a root shell. (Select "Root Shell" from the KNOPPIX menu.) 3. At the root shell, type this.
shred -zv /dev/hda
4. Walk away. Come back the next day. 5. Shut down KNOPPIX and remove the CD. (Select "Log out" from the main menu)
That will securely wipe out your Windows partition, your Linux partition, and your partition table (so you can't tell where the Windows and Linux partitions were). It will run for a long time, certainly an hour and maybe a whole day, depending on how big the disk is and how slow the PC is.
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