Re: Clearing Old PC's



Cryptographic_ICE@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello,

I'm interested in creating a boot disk that will "Wipe" the current
hard-drive and create a single Fat32 partition. My company is selling
100 or so PC's that need to be wiped and I'm looking for the easiest
way to do that. The computers have floppy drives, Cd-Roms and I think
they support PXE boot. Would there be an easy way to install a Linux
distro at the same time? (Perhaps Multicasting / PXE boot??) Any help
is appreciated.

Fdisk?

Oh you mean REALLY wipe.. isn't there a version of Format that does a sector by sector low level format?

I'd boot/run something like that with a really old version of DOS. Or something like 'disk doctor'



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