On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ? I believe the best way is to use "Secure Erase" which is initiated at the HD firmware level via an hdparm command in Linux - this allows the erase to be done by the firmware on the drive itself and once initiated will prevent access to the drive until it completes. https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase HTH -- mike c -- 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
