Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation
Also for the record, reasons I hate windows: It keeps defaulting to
another email I created for testing out some email thing instead of
the one I think i'm currently signed in under. FML. lol
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Thomas D Dial <tdial@cox.net> wrote:
> Yes, from my experience it is safe. You may have to add a partition
> table before formatting it. If I recall correctly, cfdisk will complain
> mildly and ask you to do that. The Linux installer might take it in
> stride, or you might have to run fdisk or cfdisk from the USB ISO.
>
> Tom Dial
>
>
> On 05/02/2016 09:00 AM, CD Lexi wrote:
>> Hey everyone. I'm currently looking to switch to Debian from Windows. I
>> used to love windows, but with every upgrade it seems I lose privacy,
>> control and honestly functionality. Sure, there's a lot more I can, if
>> that wasn't mitigated by what windows wants me to do at the time. I
>> should have never even moved on to 10...constantly interrupting or
>> flogging my system to ask me to upgrade in the middle of sensitive work
>> should have been my tip off....I digress...
>>
>> My question is this: I know what Zero and Random fills do to a drive, I
>> run them on every USB and Sd/MSD card I buy or retrieve, and everytime I
>> repurpose them. But I've never done this to a HDD and my laptop is my
>> only accessible PC aside from my Galaxy S6. I've backed up all my
>> important documents to multiple cloud locations, so I'm not worried
>> about losing user data. I'm just wandering, is it safe to Zero Fill an
>> HDD before installing Debian from a USB ISO? I know I can boot to the
>> ISO and Zero or Random Fill, or other sani methods from the USB Booted
>> Debian, but will doing this to my hard drive stop me from being able to
>> install from the USB to the HDD? I guess because I've never really
>> messed with the BIOS in windows, aside from neccisity, I'm just worried
>> if I zero fill and for some reason my laptop reboots before the new
>> install, it won't boot from the USB anymore and thus make me have to
>> find another computer from which to install DB. This is probably a
>> rookie question, but better safe then sorry with my first full HDD
>> sanitzation. Thanks!!!
>>
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