Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:33:47PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >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 > resto

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Sep 2012 at 15:41:06 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 23/09/12 15:30, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email > > > > I think you meant "by telephone". If so, you have to be kidding :-) > > How did that get changed? The original post

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23/09/12 15:30, Camaleón wrote: > >> please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email > > I think you meant "by telephone". If so, you have to be kidding :-) How did that get changed? The original post most certainly said "telephone". I had the same thought as Camaleón -- Tony

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:31:06 -0400, 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. You can use your manufacturer's hard drive disk utilities to perform a low-level format. > please respond

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
* d d [120922 18:51]: > I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other > software from a hard drive > leaving a completely clean hard drive. > > please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email > > Dick > 315+399-6113 It sounds as if your wish is simply to purg

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://dban.sf.net/ ought to help. download iso and burn to dvd or cd and read up on dban and boot dban disk and dban will clean windows real good. I think enter at the boot: prompt autostart 5 then go away and let dban do its work. A 200MB disk if I remember right took 8 hours to clean so f

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
On 9/22/2012 12:56 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: 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 fo

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Neal Murphy
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 dri

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
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 partitio

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
On 9/22/2012 11:31 AM, 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. please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email Since when is GMail not reliable email? Anyway, since you are

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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 > please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email http://www.d

hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread d d
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other software from a hard drive leaving a completely clean hard drive. please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email Dick 315+399-6113 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject