Boot off a Knoppix CD (or a Red Hat installation CD, or a Debian installation CD, ...). Make sure your drive is not mounted. Assuming your drive is /dev/hda, run fdisk /dev/hda. Divide the number of bytes on the device by 1024 to get `x'.
Then, run: dd bs=1024 count=x if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda Coincidentally, I just helped my mother do this on her machine last night. :-) Mike On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:51:43PM -0600, John Noll wrote: > I'm trying to sell my laptop, and would like to scrub the Hard Drive clean; > so my personal files, financial data, etc. are not recoverable to the new > owner. Is there a good utility to use to scrub a hard drive clean, so the > data is not recoverable? Would Eraser work? I'm trying to figure out a > utility that is running on an OS could delete that OS. Ummmh? > > Anyway, any pointers? > > thanks, > > john > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | | What's another word for synonym? | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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