Re: [Blind-sysadmins] securely wiping hard drives

Hi, Thanks. Linux is fine, though the drives have been reappropriated and won't need to be secure erased, in the future that might be needed again. I'll check out hdparm. Thanks. Dave. On 3/25/18, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

Hi,

I have used KillDisk to do this under Windows with a USB enclosure before:

http://www.lsoft.net/killdisk.aspx

It is not free, I had a Data Studio license as I use the other tools in the suite. I would also say newer versions are slightly more difficult to use with JFW.

I don't know any other Windows solutions and would recommend Linux if you want to do this free.

Andrew.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: 25 March 2018 00:29 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] securely wiping hard drives

Hi

The propper way to do this is to boot into Linux & use hdparm or similar to issue the secure erase ATA command. Since you're using USB & running Windows (2 things I wouldn't recommend for this) anything that will 0fill the drive will be fine.

Cheers, Ben.

On 3/24/18, Isaac wrote:

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if your going to destroy the drives drive a nail through them, that is one technique used by dod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Rigby" To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] securely wiping hard drives

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Buy a hammer!! Honestly, I just don't know why you would bother doing anything else unless it is an intellectual curiosity which drives you. I could understand that. Phil.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: 23 March 2018 21:19 To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] securely wiping hard drives

Hello,

I've got several old hard drives that I'm now wanting to get rid of. I need to securely wipe them. They connect to my computer via USB enclosure. I know about boot and nuke, but to the best of my knowledge and i'd love to be wrong, that doesn't work with access technology.

Recommendations appreciated. I'm using windows 10 with NVDA 2017.4 and jaws 18.

Thanks. Dave.

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