[olug] wiping out a laptop

[Brady Cox]

It was asked that the drive be zeroed out.  dd would be my suggestion too.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Kelly Williams
<kellywilliams81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> They will love that one. That something i should do to my stepmother..
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> 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
>>>
>>> No I am not going to put vista back on. I tried FC 10 it worked great...
>>>
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