DBAN question / alternative

Bezinator · 10 Dec 2010 at 11:40

Hi,

Am selling my Dell laptop and before I send it off I wish to dban the OS parition and then recover the system so it's in the same state as when purchased new.

Now as far as I am aware DBAN nukes the entire disk? Is there a way to only choose one partition or any other software which allows this?

Thanks

Philtor · 10 Dec 2010 at 11:57

Ultimate Boot CD has several disk wiping utilites that might be worth a look?

jbloggs · 10 Dec 2010 at 12:11

Disk Wipe seemingly does this...

liamcrane · 10 Dec 2010 at 12:47

Disk part "Clean all" should do the trick matey

EniGmA1981 · 10 Dec 2010 at 13:25

^^ what they said

In response to the other part of the post then yes, DBAN nukes physical drives only, not partitions.

brainchylde · 10 Dec 2010 at 20:29

What disk is it? Manufacturers have utilities to zero fill usually - should be adequate.

Tomsk · 10 Dec 2010 at 20:49

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