[wellylug] Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") HDD eraser

[Rob van der Linde]

You should be able to do it using "GParted" on the Ubuntu live cd.

Open the "System->Administration" menu, click on "Gparted".

Make sure the correct hard drive is selected (should be default if you
only have one hard drive).  Click "Device->Create partition table" and
create an "msdos" partition (this should be the default anyway).

However, if you want to do a complete wipe of the drive, last time I had
to use something like:

sudo dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda

This will completely overwrite the drive with zeros and will take  a
long time.  Make sure you have the correct hard drive, but if you only
have one drive, /dev/sda should be correct.

There's probably an easier way to just overwrite the boot sector, but
this method should definitely work.

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 19:32 +1200, marchetti wrote:
> I want to erase the entire contents, including the Fedora
> OS, of a laptop's HDD. And thren start afresh.
> 
> I have tried the above Darik freebie, but it did not work,
> returning to the boot cue. It may be intended for Windows
> OS' only.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ken Martin
> 
> 
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