Re: Clearing Old PC's

On 2007-08-10, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

Maybe I should explain what I want to do and why! I have a dodgy SATA
hard drive which the shop replaced under warranty and has let me retain
for a while before I give it back to them to return to the manufacturer.
I installed the OS on the new hard drive, restored from backups,
plugged the dodgy drive in too, recovered some additional files from it,
and disconnected it.

I want to wipe the dodgy drive before I hand it back in, but I don't
want to leave it connected it to my working computer to do so, in case
it plays up again and crashes it. So I want to stick it in an old
computer to run DBAN on it, but the old one doesn't have a SATA port on
the motherboard. I'll need to buy a £30 SATA PCI card to do this.


Before you go out an but a card just to wipe your drive why don't you
just connect it to your new machine and run badblocks on it. If your
system crashes so what, just reboot it. SATA connections aren't shared so
the bad drive isn't going to corrupt the good drives.

I didn't want the computer to crash during my overnight backup job or
while I was logged in remotely, for example. As it turns out, the
computer store sold me the wrong thing (a PCI _express_ card that
won't fit into any slots on my old computer) so I'm having to take my
chances with it plugged into my working computer (using GNU shred
rather than badblocks). So far, so good. Wish me luck!
.

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