Peter,
If you really want to wipe a hard drive clean, I would suggest try to
find a low-level format routine from the vendor of the hard-drive. Most
vendors have them posted on their websites and are self-extracting
utilities that create a bootable diskette. From there you should be able
to choose a diagnostic format routine, or "write all 0's or 1's" to test
the drive surface. That will clean all of the data off of the drive as
well as test the surface for errors, making the drive useable again.
Unfortunately, most of these extract under Windows so if you don't have
access to a Windows machine then you may not be able to use them.
Dan
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From: "Peter Nosko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Leaf-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: [Leaf-user] OT: Securely wiping a hard drive?
> pn] Since this group is interested in security, I thought someone here
might
> know of this. I'm looking for a utility to securely wipe the contents
of an
> entire hard drive. Norton used to make one long ago that worked to
DoD
> Standards, and I still have a copy, but it is MS-DOS based, and if I
> remember correctly has limitations on the size of partitions. They no
> longer make one. I just found one from IBM that works on up to 18GB
drives,
> but it only runs against IBM drives.
>
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> Peter Nosko
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