Wiping with DD leftovers

[joel.folkerts at gmail.com (Joel Folkerts)]

Using dd with Windows is a very frustrating experience when compared to
Linux where it's fairly intuitive.

-Joel


"The path to hell is paved with good intentions."


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

> 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
> > >
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