[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

[Chuck Payne]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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LOL, I would but it as the house. I need something quick. I just just
the Boot and Nuke disc. A bit sad, I just finish tearing down my lab.
No more spacewalk or ESXi servers. Total of 9 machines gone. I hate
but outs.

Pup

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