Re: [Hampshire] Erasing Hard Drives

Jacqui caren wrote:
> Vic wrote:
>>> I am a little concerned about using the dban disk, as I don't want
>>> to damage the main drive on my machine. What tools would people
>>> recommend that I can use to wipe clean a disk that is in my USB
>>> caddy?
>>
>>
>> A PC carcass with no hard drive? :-)
>
> 1) ensure bios is set toboot from CD.
> 2) disconnect your drives just to be sure.
>
> Jacqui
>
> You are right to be concerned - mistakes happen.
>
>

Indeed they do.

I found 'shred' and 'wipe' running off of Knoppix 5.1.1 to be a fairly
friendly way of going about it recently, although I have no idea how
they stack up against the competition. I felt warm and fuzzy afterwards,
so they must be good! :o)

Sean