3 May
2025
3 May
'25
11:51 p.m.
If you're able to attach the disk to any computer running a Unix/Linux
OS, a simple dd command should be able to wipe the disk clean:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress
obviously you'd want to make sure that /dev/sdb is the disk you want to
erase.
On 2025-05-03 4:46 p.m., Brian Knittel via cctalk wrote:
Passing on a request: anyone know of a way to erase
user data off a Mac SE hard disk that will leave the disk and Mac OS intact? The machine
works and could go to a new home but has privileged medical data on it so just deleting
files isn’t sufficient — the free space has to be overwritten. Are there any utilities
available on floppy disk that could do it? Plan B is taking a sledgehammer to the drive,
but seems a waste to go right to euthanasia if there’s another option.