Hiren's BootCD has a killdisk on it, if you're concerned with data leakage. Otherwise, something interesting that you could do is a dd wipe. Something along the lines of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=4k, or if you want random data written to it: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx bs=4k. Of course, you'd have to boot into a Linux instance to do this first (whether it be a live disc or an already installed machine).

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Steve B <steveb7@gmail.com> wrote:

ATA Secure Erase

On Oct 8, 2016 9:28 AM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I got a drive I do not need anything that is on it. When I try to erase the contents of with 'rm -rf *' I get permission denied. The easy way is to format it but I can't remember the command to figure out what device it is labled as.

Could someone help?

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