If you have nvme use secure erase first.
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lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Step 1: Back up important files
Step 2: boot from live Linux USB
Step 3: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvmeX && dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/nvmeX Repeat
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Chiqa@midwest.social 2 months ago
This, but encrypt the backed up data with full disk encryption.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Use a live Linux ISO that can run entirely in memory, and run step 3 in an infinite loop. Take the USB with you and leave the PC running.
agingelderly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m dumb, what does this do?
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Write random data in the drive over and over again, with one or two pass there are some sophisticated techniques that can get some sliver of data out if the random. But with 3 4 passes and more it’s statistically unlikely they can recover anything.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Runs step 3 in an infinite loop