![]() ![]() It takes roughly half the time 90 minutes on a 1TB drive instead of 3 hours using external writes. ![]() The fastest method is to use the drive's internal 'Secure Erase' function. The suggested command wasĪs the new owner of the drive, you inherit the responsibility for what's on it. I saw this suggested in another forum, but I don't claim to fully understand it. I have never used DBAN before but I gather it is effective ģ) use the "dd" command in the terminal to delete/overwrite the entire disk contents. I'm just not totally sure that this will sort out any bad sectors than may have been caused by WinXP in, for example, its MBR Ģ) use Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) to "wipe" everything. But it seems I have a choice of at least three ways of doing so:ġ) use GParted to delete all partitions, create new partition table, and set up and format new partitions. So I plan to "wipe" the entire hard disk and do a clean install of Linux. I have run chkdsk in XP, which helped a bit but has not cured the problem. I was originally going to delete all the documents, keep WinXP (as there are still one or two Windows programs that I use occasionally) and install Linux Mint or another distro as dual boot.īut WinXP is playing up - won't boot, hangs, won't shut down - and it seems clear there are some corrupted files/sectors on the hard disk - possibly in the MBR and/or the partition table. ![]() It still has WinXP installed, and assorted old folders/files. I have an old desktop (actually a castaway from an office where I used to work). ![]()
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