Re: Securely wipe the laptop.hard drive

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

as suggested, boot from usb or cd, then do whatever to the hd, like cat
/dev/urandom to it or whatever

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 06:36 hancooper <hancooper@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, September 24, 2021 4:32 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 12:12 AM hancooper via help-bash@gnu.org wrote:
> >
> > > I have a laptop and want to securely wipe the hard drive. Can I wipe
> the drive (e.g. using dd, shred), without having to remove the hard drive,
> connect it to another computer and wipe it?
> >
> > Probably not.
> >
> > Usually you do something like.... download Ultimate Boot CD, burn it
> > to a CD. boot to the program, and select a secure wipe option. I like
> > Ultimate Boot CD because its secure wipe program can handle raid
> > drives.
>
> I have thought about making a large partition and wiping that.
>
>