automatically wiping an NT 4.0 (NTFS) system

[NEM1S1S]

My client has 5 old NT 4.0 PC's that are being retired, my client would like a fully automated boot disk that will wipe them automatically. Is there a list of switches that FDISK can use without any user intervention? remember, these are "stupid users" and don't know anything about PC's

[Rapmaster]

FDISKing does not fully wipe the disk. The data can be recovered. This is important if you care about security.

Try something like this: http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/n_dw.htm (although there are free ones out there)

Like this: http://download.com.com/3000-2092-10...ml?tag=lst-0-8

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As for fdisk, here is some info: http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/

[NEM1S1S]

yeh I know, but these are stupid users.
I will try the free one

[Rapmaster]

Here is a utility that destroys all partitions.

IT DOES NOT GIVE ANY PROMPTS WHATSOEVER. IT JUST DOES IT.

BE CAREFUL.


Put it in your autoexec.bat on the disk or something.

You will need to rename it with a .COM extension (after you extract it from the zip file)

Once again, be very careful. I don't think Windows NT/2000/XP will let it delete partitions while Windows is running, but I'm not sure. But it will definetely wipe the disk if run in DOS mode (i.e. from a boot disk)

It doesn't actually wipe the info, so its not a secure way of destroying data. It blows away the partitions. It doesn't create any new ones.

I have successfully used it to blow away NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, Novell Netware and Linux ext3 partitions. So it shouldn't matter what you have.

[AKP]

If you have access to Norton Ghost, the gdisk command can be scripted in an autoexec.bat file and will wipe the disk clean up to and past current US government standards. Info on how to fully automate this, from a boot floppy can be found in the ghost help files.

[Nix]

See my post here