How To Rapidly Clean / Wipe Hard Disk Drive

April 6th, 2008 by Angsuman Chakraborty

How to overwrite your hard disk with random characters
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

How to overwrite your hard disk with zero characters
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

Replace sda / hda with your hard disk identifier.

Either of the procedure requires the system has Linux installed or accessible from Linux operating system. You can use a Live Linux distribution like Ubuntu Live CD or System Rescue CD.

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