usb boot 4 hard drive wipe

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6 total messages Started by duckstandard Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:23

#35

Author: duckstandard
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:23

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Hi, I am looking for a simple way to make a bootable USB drive that
will be able to use a utility to wipe harddrives. Preferably if it
would securely overwrite bad sectors, and possible try to repair bad
blocks or to make them ignored.
If I said that all correctly. Thanks for suggestions.

Re: usb boot 4 hard drive wipe

#36

Author: Alec Lourmier
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:27

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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:23:49 -0800 (PST), duckstandard
<duckstand@lavabit.com> wrote:

>Hi, I am looking for a simple way to make a bootable USB drive that
>will be able to use a utility to wipe harddrives.

Try DBAN: <http://www.dban.org/>

The installer should allow installing to a USB flash drive.

-- 
Alec
I am pro skub.

Re: usb boot 4 hard drive wipe

#37

Author: duckstandard
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:21

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Alec Lourmier wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:23:49 -0800 (PST), duckstandard
> <duckstand@lavabit.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi, I am looking for a simple way to make a bootable USB drive that
> >will be able to use a utility to wipe harddrives.
>
> Try DBAN: <http://www.dban.org/>
>
> The installer should allow installing to a USB flash drive.
>

Thanks, I guess my issue was finding something that makes the USB
bootable, but I guess I will find out. Thanks.

Re: usb boot 4 hard drive wipe

#34

Author: Alec Lourmier
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:08

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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:21:42 -0800 (PST), duckstandard
<duckstand@lavabit.com> wrote:

>Thanks, I guess my issue was finding something that makes the USB
>bootable, but I guess I will find out. Thanks.

The installer should do it. See the following:

<http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-dban-to-a-usb-flash-drive-using-windows/>

-- 
Alec
I am pro skub.

Re: usb boot 4 hard drive wipe

#33

Author: duckstandard
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:04

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Alec Lourmier wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:21:42 -0800 (PST), duckstandard
> <duckstand@lavabit.com> wrote:
>
> >Thanks, I guess my issue was finding something that makes the USB
> >bootable, but I guess I will find out. Thanks.
>
> The installer should do it. See the following:
>
> <http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-dban-to-a-usb-flash-drive-using-windows/>
>
> --
> Alec
> I am pro skub.

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

Re: usb boot 4 hard drive wipe

#32

Author: tam
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:05

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duckstandard wrote:
> Hi, I am looking for a simple way to make a bootable USB drive that
> will be able to use a utility to wipe harddrives. Preferably if it
> would securely overwrite bad sectors, and possible try to repair bad
> blocks or to make them ignored.
> If I said that all correctly. Thanks for suggestions.

I also use this HP format utility with great success. This utility will 
format the usb and makes it bootable with win98. After format, you can 
put other dos tool to perform various tasks.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-page,1/description.html

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