[Cialug] What are people using for a USB/LiveCD for erasinghard drives?

[Brandon Griffis]

For *really* old machines DBAN 1.0.7 can be installed to floppy and it works
just as well.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/

I wipe several machines at once this way, and it meets DOD requirements.

-B

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Lengeling
<John.Lengeling at radisys.com>wrote:

> > Yes it can. The only thing it wants to do after it starts is to write
> > back a result file, which only works using the floppy version anyway.
> > John, I third (or forth?) the vote for DBAN. It's quick, easy, OSS,
> > will parallelize the wiping,
>
> Thanks for the pointer to DBAN.   Already running it on a few PCs...Damn
> dead CDROM drives.  Going to have to get DBAN on USB drive.
>
> For any kind of shredding needs, I have used this place:
>
> https://www.shipnshred.com/home/index.php
>
> Just put them in a box and print a FedEx label.  When I last used them a
> couple of years ago, they said that they don't even open up the box.
> Which makes sense.
>
> johnl
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