Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 12:28, Dave Price wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions,
> etc.
>
> I found this on /. thru a google search:
>
> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX
>
> When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install
> disk, It does not seem to work ... i.e. I can still see the old
> partition table in fdisk ...
>
> Is there maybe a better dd invocation ?
Sounds like you want fdisk, or cfdisk.
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