Questions tagged [wipe]
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Is the dban quick method for HDD equal to a full wipe?
I wiped my HDD with DBAN and the quick method. Craig Steven Wrigt says it‘s secure to erase an HDD one time. I think so too, but is the DBAN quick wipe a full one time wipe?
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Is the blocksize important when wiping a disk with dd and zeros
I used
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096
For wiping a disk.
Can be the blocksize a security risk or is it just speeding the thing up.
Sorry for my bad english
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If This Is TRIM, DBAN Should Work
I am informed that drive wiping tools do not work reliably on SSDs due to such features as wear leveling. Here, for example, a quote from MakeUseOf:
[T]o comply with wear levelling, the SSD must ...
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How to erase any kind of files after formating and installing Fedora 27 Workstation
How can I safely erase files that could potentially be recovered after a hard drive format and installation on a Fedora 27 workstation? I was using Windows 10, and everything that I had in Windows 10 ...
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How to securely erase HPA, DCO, and any bad sectors of a SCSI HDD
Does dd if=/dev/zero of =/dev/cciss/c0d0 bs=1M wipe over the HPA, DCO, and any bad sectors?
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Wipe hard drive on old windows xp laptop - no CD Drive & no USB Boot support
I need to wipe an old laptop (one pass, all zeros will do).
The laptop is ancient and has:
Windows XP Professional installed as its sole os.
no USB boot support
no working CD drive
no hammer/drill
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Can I reliably use `dd` to wipe the root filesystem on a running Linux server?
I have a (physically) remote server I'd like to securely destroy. Unfortunately, the disk is partitioned with a single, large root partition and nothing else. Can I reliably use dd to wipe the device ...
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Should HDDs be wiped out periodically to refresh them?
Should HDDs be wiped out periodically to refresh them, using Darik's Boot and Nuke for example or just when extremely needed? In other words, do programs like DBAN act like fresheners or should their ...
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Do I still have to wipe a drive which was encrypted with BitLocker, then formatted?
I want to sell a HDD. It was BitLocker-encrypted and I formatted it, removing the encryption.
Could there still be recoverable data on the drive? E.g. if I never used all space on the drive while it ...
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Is reinstalling windows enough for deleting all data? [duplicate]
I'm returning my laptop and I'm just going to go through the Windows installation via USB, delete the partitions through there, and reinstall windows. It's an HDD, in case that matters.
That's enough ...
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Zeroing a file from command-line
Is there a built-in command in Windows 7 or higher to fill a file with zero / NULL bytes?
The processing should happen in-place (i.e. it should modify the actual disk sectors / bytes of the file), ...
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Delete file/folder and wipe it
Is there a simple way (in Windows 7 or higher) to delete a file or folder and wipe it? (all data filled with zero bytes is enough for me).
Either with GUI:
Right click on file > Contextual menu &...
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Wiping without losing license of Windows 7
I am going to wipe my HDD with the help of using DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke).
I have a laptop with a genuine Windows 7(provided by OEM).
So if I wipe then can I again activate windows 7?
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Is my laptop wiped?d the drive c, and then set up a recovery partition so I could sell the laptop
I took my laptop to a computer store to be wiped before reselling. The owner wrote in the comments section that he wiped the drive C using DOD and set up a recovery partition. Does this sound right? ...
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Securely wiping a drive with DD, /dev/zero or /dev/urandom?
I have to securely wipe all data from a hard drive as I'm going to give it away. I plan on using the dd under linux utility to do so, after a little bit of research, I found two ways of doing so:
dd ...
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