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FDisk - Total Format?
skyman8081:
Most HDD manufacturers ship a special floppy disk with their drives, if you boot that disk it will write zero's over the entire drive, making it completely fresh.
and it that ain't enough, and you have classified materials on you drive, use DBAN which will write random 1's and 0's over your drive 5 times and is compliant to the American DoD 5220-22.M Standard Wipe spec.
MrX:
i already put the link in my original message so you can wipe the hdd with 00
did you even do this yet?
Mr X
TheQuirk:
--- Quote from: Giorgi ---Hi all, wanted to ask you if the FDisk format erases EVERYTHING that is on my HDD (so all that shit IE and Outlook history files dissapear)?
--- End quote ---
No one provided a basic explanation as to _why_ it doesn't wipe the HD completely.
When you run fdisk, you simply remove the partion _table_. This means that the data stays on the hard drive. The computer simply doesn't know what belongs where. When you create a new table, the data stays on the HD it's written over.
To remedy this, you should use the tools mentioned above to overwrite all the old data.
Master of Reality:
get a nice linux boot disk... then at the shell run "# cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda"
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: Master of Reality ---get a nice linux boot disk... then at the shell run "# cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda"
--- End quote ---
Using that exact command in a slightly different structure also helps to complete tape backups in record time. :D
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