Create one partition that spans the whole drive and then cat /dev/urandom to it. That should take care of it for just about anyone but the NSA.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Mike Bean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In short, I'm giving one of my older PC's to a friend's friend. One of those, I don't need it, things. In any case, in terms of secure destruction of drives, my father's always taught me to disassemble the drives and throw the heads and the platter out separately. Can't do it here, they need the drives, so I thought I'd ask for advice in case we have members who might know a thing or two about this sort of thing. I figured I'd probably just boot it to a live CD and nuke the partitions, and that's <i><b>probably </b></i>enough, after all, I don't need like a military-grade erase, but I'll settle for making it @#$@#$@$ hard to recover. Any suggestions are welcome.<br>
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