desktop disposal

[kcs636]

I am disposing of my Ubuntu older Natty system, and have performed a wipe.
When it boots I'm at the
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>

This doesn't feel like a system that is safe to donate....

Do I need to do more to finish off this system?

thanks

[sidzen]

Suggest using SystemRescueCD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/), booting to it and, at the multi-colored prompt on the page asking the user to enter either "wizard" or "startx," type the dd command which will wipe the entire hard drive with zeros. Either that or discover which partition still exists and wipe only it.


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaX bs=4096 conv=notrunc,sync

where the capital X is the partition number (leave it off to wipe entire hard drive)

[kc1di]

I am disposing of my Ubuntu older Natty system, and have performed a wipe.
When it boots I'm at the
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>

This doesn't feel like a system that is safe to donate....

Do I need to do more to finish off this system?

thanks

by simply erasing he OS and formatting the drive you are not destroying the actual data. formating only erases the location indicators on the H.D but all most all of the date survives.

If you want the disc to be completely clean down load and run boot and nuke. here :http://www.dban.org/

[sidzen]

@kc1di (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1839)
FYI dban is included in SysResCD