On 01/Oct/2001, Henderson, Pete wrote: > I am looking for a utility that I could use to wipe hard drives using a boot > disk. To completely overwrite the entire drive, I would need to boot to a > different device. Correct? If I slave a hard drive and boot to the master, > doesn't Windows still create a recycle bin on the slave? Would mounting it > with Linux be a better solution? Which Linux program works best? Hm ... wouldnt a simple boot disk with bash and dd, and the proper device files created, would be enough :? while [ always ] ; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda; done and when you're tired, you just stop ... :? -- Javi Polo - DrSlump - Registered Linux User #97502 Proud member of the Panda Gey Community (powered by linux) http://javipolo.ivworlds.org/ - Fidonet 2:347/1.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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