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 <td...@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!!! >> >
