[olug] wiping out a laptop

[Kelly Williams]

They will love that one. That something i should do to my stepmother..



charles.bird at powerdnn.com wrote:
> Just provide windows98 with AOL. Its almost April 1st right?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us>
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> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:24:37 
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] wiping out a laptop
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> DBAN is not up-to-date on hardware support and most likely doesn't
> support the SATA controller.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Kelly Williams wrote:
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>> 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
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>> No I am not going to put vista back on. I tried FC 10 it worked great...
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