Tagged: Wipe Hard Drive

How To Use DD to Wipe Hard Drive

Helpful to know which device is which fdisk -l Will write zeros to sda dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M Write random numbers to sda dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M Wipe the MBR dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 or just add the partition number to sda to wipe certain partitions Creates an ISO disk image from a CD-ROM; in some cases the created...