Wipe a disk with Ubuntu.

[aliencure]

Hello again. I am trying to completely wipe drive C on my HP using the Department of Defense default (three wipes using the 0's and 1's). Said drive houses my Windows installation. Anyone know how to do this with Ubuntu 9.04?

[Therion]

The only thing an install CD will have is a formatting utility.

Use DBAN if you really want to absolutely, totally, nuke the drive from orbit.

http://www.dban.org/about

[itnet7]

I would suggest you try shred, More about shred can be found here: Shred examples

This is what I'm going to try next time I have a need!

Chris C.
itnet7

[aliencure]

Thank you all for your responses. Tried Dban with no success. I went to the Shred example page but it is EXTREMELY confusing to me. I watched the video but it told me little next to nothing on how to select a drive to wipe. I really would not know what to do. If someone can give me a step-by-step basis to work with I might be able to pull it off. Thank you all for any help you can give me.

[itnet7]

I will try and see if I can document the use of shred here for you... to overwrite the c partition.

Thanks,

Chris C.
itnet7

[aliencure]

Here is what came up in terminal when I tried using shred commands:

derek@derek-desktop:~$ shred -f -n 3 -u -v -x -z hp
shred: hp: failed to open for writing: No such file or directory
derek@derek-desktop:~$

I used "hp" because that is how it is listed under the "places" menu. Though I found pages making shred less confusing, apparently I am still unsure how to locate the drive to be shredded. Any suggestions?