[KLUG Members] Formatting a drive: Is it clean?

Mark Bystry mabystry at verizon.net
Mon Jan 30 15:18:32 EST 2006


10-4. thanks for the tips...

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Richard Zimmerman wrote the following on 1/30/2006 2:51 PM:
> Basically Yes!
> 
>     Although I never use the autonuke.. (just me) I Always go with one 
> of the DOD specs and MANY passes. I like to make sure the drives are 
> unrecoverable. Even on my own home machines I do this... Just seems to 
> work better when installing a new OS... (again, just my personal 
> observations)
> 
> Goose
> 
> 
> Mark Bystry wrote:
>> great! thanks guys.
>>
>> so the steps would be:
>> 1.) autonuke with boot disc
>> 2.) format
>> 3.) install OS
> 


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