I had a disk failure on the drive of my shiny new Dell 1700 which wiped out the Vista partition. Now I'm only running with Ubuntu (which is working well - thanks for asking). The drive is going to have to be replaced so I'm searching for info on cleaning the drive.
Of course, with physical errors on the drive I'm expecting most utilities to fail; but we'll see.
I've downloaded Darik's Boot-and-Nuke and burnt it to a CD. It allows you to create a bootable floppy, USB device or CD then boot from it to run a utility that will securely erase your drives.
I downloaded the iso image then wrote it to a CD using
> cdrecord dban-1.0.7_i386.iso
It was easier than I expected, cdrecord just worked - another tick for ubuntu.
Since DBAN can be used from a bootable device it will fine work from any OS, which is nice.
DBAN will be my second line of attack. Since I'm running Linux I intend to start with Secure-Delete.
Installation and use are described in this summary Howto Delete Files Permanently and Securely in Linux.
I can't run them yet. First I need to add another drive so I have a working machine when the duff drive is taken out. Then we will see.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
