[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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