Securely wiping hard drives The easy way with Live Distros! By Carl Weisheit

Secure that disk! Formatting a drive does not securely wipe it. Deleting files do not securely remove them. You are responsible for what a guest may have downloaded or left on your machine.

Boot up from Live Disto Use one of these: Dariks Boot and Nuke Ultimate Boot CD

Select Hard Disk tools on UBCD

Select Wiping Tools on UBCD

Select Darik’s Boot and Nuke on Ultimate Boot CD

This is the main screen Command help setup

Press P to select random fill pattern of ones and zeros

Press M to select the method of wiping the disk

Press V to select if or how it will verify what is written to disk

Press R to select how many times it will repeat

Press f10 and watch it run It will report as it is running

And you now have a blank disk!

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