[Tfug] Cleaning old Windows Disks
Andrew Ayre
andy at britishideas.com
Wed May 19 21:12:27 MST 2010
Why not wipe them with Darik's Boot and Nuke then format?
Andy
earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> One of my duties at World Care is rebuilding old Windows computers. I was
> recently told some of these disks might have root kits that can hide from
> Windows fdisk. I have no clue as to what hides in Windows (nor do I
> really care). I think using badblocks with -w option will clean off
> everything on the disk. Does anyone know if I am right here?
>
> Earl
>
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Andy
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