Re: Clearing Old PC's



On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:14:06 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

Guy Macon wrote:

DBAN -- Darik's Boot and Nuke. It's the standard way to do this.

Does anyone know if this will work to wipe a SATA drive connected to a
PCI SATA card which is plugged into a motherboard that has IDE jacks but
no IDE drives connected?

Why don't you just boot the DBAN disk and see?

Stef

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