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Wiping with DD leftovers
From: irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 22:11:10 -0400
Thanks, I've tried a few different iterations of of=, but I'll try that as well. Adrian On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Joel Folkerts <joel.folkerts at gmail.com>wrote:
Adrian- Merely a guess as I'm on the road without access to a test disk but I think you're asking dd to write *within* the volume so you're still going to see NTFS remnants. Are you trying to wipe the entire physical drive? If so, you will probably need to access the drive at the physical device level: - C:\Users\adrian\Desktop\aft>dd if=/dev/zero of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 bs=1M --progress *[check your dd --list for accurate device number]* -Joel "The path to hell is paved with good intentions." On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:Ive noticed something. If I use the Windows DD from http://www.chrysocome.net/dd and use this command: C:\Users\adrian\Desktop\aft>dd if=/dev/zero of=\\.\Volume{de891b6a-8432-11de-86d4-005056c00008} bs=1M --progress it seems to leave some data on the beginning (sometime) and end (always) if the drive had been formatted NTFS before. I'm using WinHEX to verify by the way. Any ideas? Adrian _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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