#LINUX USB SECURE ERASE INSTALL#
#LINUX USB SECURE ERASE UPDATE#
#LINUX USB SECURE ERASE PC#

I am also under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that creating a new partition table then reformatting would make it fairly difficult to get any usable data from the device.Unfortunately, these methods won't work in the case of USB sticks. I believe that either or both overwrite selected files. Here's the link for the Linux bootable tool: There are 'secure-delete' and 'nautilus-wipe' in the repositories.

#LINUX USB SECURE ERASE UPDATE#

With the Toolbox you have to run the update process separately for each OCZ drive you have. I like using it better than the OCZ Toolbox to update the firmware on my drives because it updates the firmware on ALL attached OCZ drives. It downloads the latest firmware version so you donвЂ™t have to burn a new disk whenever a new firmware version is released. You can also use the same disk to update the firmware on your OCZ drives. All youвЂ™re doing from then on is just changing your 1st boot device in BIOS. The next time forward when you want to secure erase your drive the whole process takes less than 5 minutes. The longest part of the whole process is creating the boot disk the 1st time. You don't have to know any Linux commands, just double-click an icon. Once youвЂ™re in Linux you just double-click an icon that says 'Secure Erase'.

#LINUX USB SECURE ERASE PC#

You then reboot your pc and change your 1st boot device to the CD or USB drive. iso file and burn it to a CD or USB thumb drive. Use OCZвЂ™s Linux boot disk to secure erase your drive.ДЄll you have to do is download a Linux. But I don't like having to crack the case open on both PC the reset my SSDs.ДЇor so those in the know, are they the same? I know writing to SSDs too many times is bad, but one more time out of 10,000 ain't gonna kill it. I've done both, clean all first, then secure erase. I use DISKPART to 'offline' the drives, then I can use secure erase. But then there a 'frozen' or 'locked' states for the drive(s). I do have a work around, as I have another PC that I can plug the drive(s) into to run it as a secondary, non-boot drive.

#LINUX USB SECURE ERASE INSTALL#

I know 'clean all' works, as I can run it from the Windows 7 install disk (using repair option, getting to a command prompt).Д«ut, OCZ Secure Erase must be run in Windows (7), and you can't erase the boot drive(s). I don't think it over-writes or erases anything. I think secure erase tells the drive itself, beit SSD or HDD, to reset itself to a 'fresh' state using the drives internal controller. There are other secure erase programs, like HDDErase (won't see my hard drives, because of my chipsets), MDD (slow), and DBAN (really slow, and writes, not deletes). Secure Erase is a program included in OCZ Tooldbox for SSD updates, etc.

I don't know if it works for drives in RAID (why not? It sees it), as I always remove the array, or set SATA to ACHI from RAID. And 'clean all' write zeros to all the blocks of the drive, not erasing, but zeroing out. I think 'clean' erases or resets the MBR of the drive, including all partitions, etc. Is DISKPART's 'clean all' command and a 'Secure Erase' program the same for SSDs?ДЇor those who don't know what either is, here you go:ДISKPART is part of Windows command prompt in DOS (XP or newer.

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