Please bare with me, I am very new to open source and have never used uBuntu before and as such may be asking basic questions, which I need to understand before preparing to download uBuntu.
I have an old laptop, that I wish to rejuvinate, and I need to completely wipe the hard drive as well as reformat it and load a new Operating System.
I have decided to move to uBuntu, and no longer use my MS
I have only one laptop and one 4G usb drive. The optical drive is down, and there is no portable usb optical drive available.
I plan to first securely wipe the whole disk which is a 160G 5400rpm sata, and then install fedora on the disk. I have parted-magic in mind for secure erase. Since the dvd drive is broken I have to make a live usb drive of fedora in order to install fedora.
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Until now, I've always used DBAN if I wanted to wipe a hard drive. However, I am increasingly unhappy with it.
I think that every user that has some skill know that a simple rm of a file or deleting it via any file manager is not enough to really remove it from your hard disk.
In Linux there are some tools that can offer you way more secure to really delete your files: DBAN if you need to erase completely a hard disk o partition or if you just have to delete some files you can use Shred or Wipe
My laptop hard disk got crashed. But until I replace I want to do my home works. So I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on 16GB Kingston DT101 G2 pen drive.
My question is, using my pen drive as my regular disk for 1 or 2 weeks is that OK ? Will I get any problems in my pen drive? After I replace my hard disk can I use that pen drive as normal ( just assume I will use my laptop at least 12 hours per day).
I have an older HP laptop that came with Vista. Instead of installing Win8, I installed Ubuntu as an application where it prompts for Windows or Ubuntu during the boot process.
Well, Windows has not been booting for a year... I think it was crushed by a virus.
Do you want to donate or give away your unwanted computers to charity but afraid of your personal information ending up in the wrong hands? You’re not alone.
I wanted to wipe my tab for a clean install.
In recovery I tried 'wipe data/factory reset' but this resulted in a reboot. So I Odin'd my tab with a stock rom. I noticed I wasn't able to root either.
So in Android in pressed 'Factory Data Reset' and it got stuck in an 'erase loop'.
It almost seems like a corrupted disk. What to do?? :crying:
I got one of those cables that you can connect to caseless IDE or SATA hard drive and then plug it into a USB port and it's worked great for the most part. Out of 20 or so hard drives, it's only had problems with two IDE drives.
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