[Tfug] Cleaning old Windows Disks

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

Mostly because I have a copy of Ubuntu 5.10 handy that I use for
recovering data and stuff like that.

Earl

On Wed, May 19, 2010 9:12 pm, Andrew Ayre wrote:
> 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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