Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Thanks Tom, jic I still take that route. It seems that installing the OS and then ecrypting it during the install will do the same job as running something like Sdelete or Dban, or any other similar program, so I think just to stay on the safe side not knowing how this particular HDD will react

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Also for the record, reasons I hate windows: It keeps defaulting to another email I created for testing out some email thing instead of the one I think i'm currently signed in under. FML. lol On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote: > Yes, from my experience it is

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Yes, from my experience it is safe. You may have to add a partition table before formatting it. If I recall correctly, cfdisk will complain mildly and ask you to do that. The Linux installer might take it in stride, or you might have to run fdisk or cfdisk from the USB ISO. Tom Dial On

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First, my apologies to everyone I CC'ed accidently. I thought when I replied, it was replying to the post not to each email. I'm not used to replying to things in this manner, I usually only communicate with people one on one unless on a forum site. Ha- Thanks for the advice, I'll look into that

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Ralph Sanchez wrote: > I can't find a reply to list, I tried reply all, does that work? It seems so, make sure you're replying to the list's address (here: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"). It's usually not neccessary to reply to all [1]. In

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

On 05/02/2016 07:39 PM, Ralph Sanchez wrote: > I can't find a reply to list, I tried reply all, does that work? yes, good job! >I currently use PGP for disk encryption, I haven't delved much into > learning about LUKS, etc but I will now. I also don't use passphrases, passphrase are just

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Hi, if unsure, start with a livefile system (like knoppix) and use "shred" to delete the device. But be warned: To do so, EVERYTHING will be lost! After that, you can install any OS you want again. Best regards Hans

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Hi, if unsure, start with a livefile system (like knoppix) and use "shred" to delete the device. But be warned: To do so, EVERYTHING will be lost! After that, you can install any OS you want again. Best regards Hans

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

I can't find a reply to list, I tried reply all, does that work? I currently use PGP for disk encryption, I haven't delved much into learning about LUKS, etc but I will now. I also don't use passphrases, I use a minisd card so keylogging software can't catch me entering my phrase. Thanks for all

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Ralph, Again, use the button reply to list. Disk encryption don't use gpg. You just have to remember a pass pharase that you use for unlock your hard disk. Installer will overwrite all your disk, but if you want you can skip this step by pressing "cancel" button please learn what gpg is and

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Am 02.05.2016 um 17:50 schrieb Ralph Sanchez: > Heqamilus --- Not an expert, but I've worked with Kali and Backtrack > for quite a while from USB live boot and figure, if I didn't kill > myself virtually while perm logged in as a root user, I should be okay > switching to debian. Plus it's more

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Hi, 1) You might want to use "Reply to list", so that all readers can see your answer. 2) Unneeded files are gone, as soon as you format the disk. Same for any malware, aside from the fact that Windows malware won't run on Linux anyway. The only thing possible would be people recovering date from

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

Hello & welcome to Linux! To be honest, I haven't found a good reason to zero any media, unless I was decommissioning it and/or selling it. When you create a new file system on installation, any new information will overwrite the old one. And as soon as it's created, the old file system won't be

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

If you want to encrypt your hard drive using a passphrase debian automatically wipe all your disk using random data.

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On 05/02/2016 05:00 PM, CD Lexi wrote: > Hey everyone. I'm currently looking to switch to Debian from Windows. I > used to love windows, but with every upgrade it seems I lose privacy, Very good choice. Are you expert? If not try to check if you prefer to use ubuntu instead. How old is your

Zero filling my HDD before installation

Hey everyone. I'm currently looking to switch to Debian from Windows. I used to love windows, but with every upgrade it seems I lose privacy, control and honestly functionality. Sure, there's a lot more I can, if that wasn't mitigated by what windows wants me to do at the time. I should have never