Shred

[Michael]

they had installed windows on it.


On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 4:18 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I just got the computer back from the shop and he said I need to
> wipe the disk to install linux on it.  Right now it won't load past the
> hardware splash screen.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:50 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 22:45 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> > I would probably do a `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX` if I am
>> understanding what
>> > you're asking. Or you could do urandom
>>
>> I've got a question. If you need to wipe them, they're leaving your
>> possession. If
>> they're leaving your possession, they're no good to you any more. So why
>> not just go
>> out in the driveway and take a hammer to them?
>>
>> Actually, I'd do the urandom first just in case they can somehow glue
>> them back
>> together, but drives I don't need anymore all fall under the hammer.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
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