On Saturday, September 22, 2012 03:33:47 PM Scarletdown wrote: > On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote: > >> I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other > >> software from a hard drive > >> leaving a completely clean hard drive. > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M > > But does that remove the partitions themselves? I thought the OP was > wanting to actually delete the MS partitions, which are used to restore > a computer to its factory default with all the overbloated crappeware > that gets put on them by the OEM.
Yes. The command writes zeroes to every block on the drive. Recovering the data would require dismantling the drive and using specialized hardware to read the edges of each track (to find residual data). It's not a cryptographically secure erase, but for the OP's purpose, it should suffice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209221556.27066.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
