[olug] wiping out a laptop

[Phil Brutsche]

DBAN is not up-to-date on hardware support and most likely doesn't
support the SATA controller.

In all honesty I wouldn't bother, just deleting all the Windows
partitions and telling the Linux installer to use the whole drive will
be more than good enough; it's not like it's got military secrets on it.

PS make sure the parents are cool with this whole Linux thing; if you
give it back to them with FC (or Ubuntu or ...) and they expect it back
with Vista a "WTF" might be the least you get back from them.

Kelly Williams wrote:
> i was asked to wipe out a laptop that a friends son downloaded some 
> junk. Its running MS Vista the parents want every thing gone. I tried 
> using dban boot nuke and came with a error non fatal error. would anyone 
> know of any other programs out there to zero out a hard drive.. Thanks Kelly
> 
> No I am not going to put vista back on. I tried FC 10 it worked great...

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us