U can use whatever boot disk for that purpose. I use win98 startup disk, which has a program named wipe in it. I suggest you do the same. Wipe is more than good. Format is of no use. After you have booted, you just simply type "wipe 0" so, that usually is your HDmaster, and example "wipe 1" would then wipe your HD1 which usually would be slave. As simple as that. Regards:Antti. P.S: And the wipe really wipes. -----Original Message----- From: Javi Polo [mailto:javipoloat_private] Sent: 2. lokakuuta 2001 14:10 To: Henderson, Pete Cc: 'forensicsat_private' Subject: Re: Securely Wiping a Hard Drive 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 ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.F-Secure.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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