I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban
1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says
starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors.
Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu.
Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does say
"to save the log file again, press enter"....
mark
On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban > 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says > starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. > Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu. > > Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does say > "to save the log file again, press enter"....I usually use dban but if it's not handy use a liveCD (me usually Ubuntu) and use dd: Assuming the drive to kill is /dev/sda: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda Do it a few times for good measure. At work we have a policy of physically destroying drives which grates a little at times.
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban > 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says > starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. > Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu. > > Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does say > "to save the log file again, press enter"....*sigh* Well, my manager actually had some CDs - dban.org only has .iso's for CDs, which I don't know enough to make work with a DVD, so I d/l and burned the new one, 2.2.6 beta, and it's working now. Interesting... before the menu came up, it looked like the display from lshw.... Oh, and I *do* have to do at DOD full sanitization: I work at a US gov't agency, and the machine's being surplused.... mark
On Friday, August 27, 2010 02:14:52 pm Benjamin Franz wrote:> There are just a *lot* of ways for a theoretically 'wiped' drive to not > actually be fully wiped. > > As you said: Take a sledge hammer to it.obFridayHumor www.harddrivedestruction.com The videos are worth the look, especially http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8 (it was a good thing I didn't have any drink in my mouth when I saw that one....)