_]{ILLER_ wrote:
> as a superuser in unix work...
> forget about this binaries and try
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda
> where hda is the drive you want to wipe out...
Hhhm. If you have extremely sensitive data, that
might not be good enough. In that case you need
to overwrite the disk media with di
as a superuser in unix work...
forget about this binaries and try
cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda
where hda is the drive you want to wipe out...
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Actually, there are programs that can and will destroy a hard drive,
typically it will only destroy the contents of the drive
(reformat/repartition). I personally use such a program to wipe out the
master boot record of a drive to clean it for fresh OS installs. The
one I use is only 8 kb in size
A program could write to a file over and over
if the file was only 1 byte long it would be writing to the same place
on the hard disk over and over and would get hot and kill the Hard drive
Head Reader
At 08:34 PM 3/11/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi All ...
>I was surfing the web someday and I passed on
Hi All ...
I was surfing the web someday and I passed on a page where is a program to
download, and there was said that it DESTROYs the harddisk !!!
it is an exe file with a size of 8 kb only ...( the link is
:http://www.geocities.com/fadiworld/fadiworld.html )
I don't believe the auther of th
