Ken Elliott wrote:
> You are looking for Darik's Boot and Nuke - DBAN.
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> http://www.dban.org/download
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> Ken Elliott
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> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of William Coulter
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:35 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] DOD level clean question
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> I can't find the thread that talked about a DOD level of cleaning a hard
> drive. I thought that it was about a distro but I can't remember where I
> put that info. Plus, I had to do a clean install of my main system when the
> hard drive crashed a few weeks ago, so that info could have been on it. It
> needs to run from a CD and work with SATA hard drives. Deleting NTFS
> partitions would be great too.
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> William
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A good all-around-tool to have is the System Rescue CD, which
incidentally includes dban AND dd_rescue.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you burn a copy of this ISO, it will
save you time if and when things break. When I was working in the Sago
Datacenter, I had this on a USB drive. Saved me the trouble of pulling
racks to fix them.
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