A guess on my part, but if you are going to zero the drive, and in keeping with the Linux theme, would the following not work?
Boot Knoppix (or RedHat in rescue mode) and use something like dd to zero the drive by writing out to the device directly. > Richard Steffens wrote: > > A friend of mine got a new computer and will be giving her old one to > > another friend of hers. She wants to make sure that all her old data is > > deleted, and bought a program (it's a Win98 machine) and tried to do it > > herself. (I don't know which tool she bought.) Since she couldn't get it > > to work, she called me. > > > > Since this machine will be starting over from scratch, wouldn't it be > > sufficient for most purposes to delete the partition(s) on the drive and > > do a fresh install, which would include formatting? I know that someone > > with sophisticated equipment could probably get old data from that drive > > even after repartitioning and formatting, but the average user probably > > wouldn't even know to look. > > > > Am I right, or am I missing something important? > > > _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
