You can use dd and urandom to destroy the disk.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd{drive letter} bs=1024
You'll want to slave the drive to another machine so you can wipe the
entire drive. There is also dban which is a bootable iso.
On Oct 8, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> 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
>
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