How to wipe hard disk? I suggested to ask for some 3rd party software and someone recommended Partition Star to me. Is that okay?
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Jump to PostBurn a live Linux DVD/CD. Boot it up. Login as root (administrator). Then, wipe the disc with the dd command. Assuming that this is the only HD on the system at the time, it will be /dev/sda. The command line would be this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
This will write …
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