Re: [Thinkpad] wiping a hard drive purchased on ebay

From: Chris Schumann <chris_at_idlelion.net>
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 14:14:37 EST

DBAN is a bazooka when a knife will do the job. So are all the other
titles suggested.

He's not selling a drive with personal information. He wants to use a
drive and be sure it doesn't have anything on it. Fdisk will do exactly
what is needed and no more.

And I hope the risk you mean to imply is that the drive might be
unreliable, and not that it's infected.

Chris Schumann

> Why on earth would anyone take the risk of buying a used hard drive???

>> Darik's Boot-and-Nuke, http://dban.sourceforge.net - simple, effective,
>> and free.

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