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How to Wipe a Hard Drive – Reader Questions

December 6, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
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Becky asked:

"...I am running Ubuntu Linux.  I want to wipe my hard drive.  How do i do that?..."

I'm assuming that you don't have another computer you can plug that hard drive in? Additionally, you cannot wipe a hard drive if you have no OS to run the software. And finally, I assume by wiping, that you are referring to writing 0's and 1's via several passes over the hard drive.

I have come across an Open Source solution that does this, it's called Darik's Boot And Nuke.

Darik's Boot And Nuke

In general, you download the image from here: http://www.dban.org/download, burn it to a CD and boot off that CD. Follow the prompts and select your appropriate configuration options.

Note: If there is data on the hard drive that you wish to keep, make yourself a seperate backup on some other media BEFORE you wipe the drive.

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  1. juarez juarez on December 7, 2009 11:30 am

    DBAN is the best.

  2. Boycott Novell Boycott Novell on December 7, 2009 3:10 pm

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