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    G1S B1 Recovery Partition and Shredding

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ridermtb, Feb 1, 2008.

  1. ridermtb

    ridermtb Notebook Guru

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    I have G1s B1. I would like to shred/nuke the information on it before I sell it. Can you recommend safe freeware software that will allow me to nuke/shred the drive yet still leave the recovery partition intact? I would like to do this, then do a clean install before passing it on to its next owner. Thanks for your suggestions and/or instructions.
     
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Well any good partition manager should allow shredding (or whatever it's called, hard erasing, writing zeros etc.) particular partitions instead of the entire drive. That should do the trick. I imagine there are good free partition utilities out there, I've always used Partition Magic myself.

    For instance, there is qtparted in Linux but I don't know if it has that function.
     
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    ridermtb Notebook Guru

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    I used Partion Magic with XP but was under the impression it is not compatible with Vista. I would also like to do a random overwrite vs. a low level format.
    Note that I haven't used any Linux OS or programs to this point. It is not that I wouldn't, I just haven't felt the need to yet.
     
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    I don't know about PQMagic compatibility you can check the website. But there is a DOS version that can be copied to DOS-bootable media, so you actually don't need Windows to run it.

    qtParted is simple. Just download the latest Knoppix distro, write the ISO to a CD, boot from that CD, start up XWindows, Alt+F2 and type qtparted in the run box.
     
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