[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

[Greg Freemyer]

Chuck,

Just use a Opensuse boot cd and do a:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx conv=noerror

Obviously /dev/sdx needs to be whatever your drive is.

conv=noerror says to continue even if you get a media error.
Otherwise, a write error might abort your wipe in the middle.

And if your drive is inop, but you want to destroy it anyway, P'tree
Secure Shredding will crush a drive for $7 ea, but there is a $50 min.
and they only accept drop-off's between noon and 2pm weekdays or
something like that.

They even have a viewing room setup, so you can watch on video a
screen as your drives get crushed.

They're near  P'tree Ind. about a mile outside the Perimeter.

Reminds me I have about 50 inop drives accumulated that need
shredding.  (We last made a run a couple years ago, so I must be
having a couple failures a month.)

Greg

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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