Re: Erasing hard drives - Erase-O-Matic?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM, John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> I have a Seagate 750gb hard drive that's died, and that I'm preparing 
> to return for warranty replacement. 
> 
> I tried to use DBAN to erase the drive, but it's unable to detect the 
> drive at all, never mind wipe its data. I did a google search for 
> hard drive degaussers, and found a lot of options that would cost 
> between $2,000 and $40,000. 

But your BIOS detects it correctly?  I would use a low-level format 
booter or something, then try to just load a Linux LiveCD and 
overwrite with /dev/zero.  Using more than one pass or /dev/random 
does not actually have an effect on newer hard drives.  Despite 
popular myth, it is not proven possible to recover data (without 
perhaps NSA-type tools and funding) even after one overwrite pass of 
zeros... 
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