Subject: RE: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 16:09:50 AKST
Thanks. I was looking for a consistent way that I could do it, no matter
what kind of drive that I have.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Dieters [mailto:enderak@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:08 PM
To: Mike Barsalou
Subject: Re: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
If they happen to be Western Digital drives, WD has a boot disk utility with
a "write all zeros" feature that works very well. I think Maxtor has
something similar as well...
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Barsalou" <mbarsalou@aidea.org>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
>
> I have some drives that I want to blank out. What is the best way to zero
a
> harddrive?
>
> Would this work ok:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx
>
> x being whatever drive I was going to do it to?
>
> Mike
>
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