[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

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> Subject: [ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.
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> Guys,
> 
> I am looking for iso, that I use to use for wiping hard drive. Does
> anyone know a name of one. I thought it was somehting DD. not the
> command dd of unix.
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Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN")
http://www.dban.org/

DBAN will not wipe sectors that have been reallocated however, Secure Erase will. This only works on IDE and SATA dirves.
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

keith


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