Linux guy: Ball peen hammer. If you want some reasonable safety and want the drive intact, write to the entire drive seven or more times with varying data patterns. NSA produces a product called Secure Wipe, I don't know if you can get to it. Also, there was a recent lengthy conversation on just this topic here within the last month. James McKenzie -----Original Message----- >From: Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Oct 8, 2010 12:31 PM >To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Properly wiping a hard drive ? > >I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an >external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an >internal drive. > >How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may >safely return it to the retailer for a refund ? > >Thanks > >-- >users mailing list >users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
