# Completely Erase Hard Drive?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/completely-erase-hard-drive/260449
**Category:** random
**Created:** [May 15, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/completely-erase-hard-drive/260449 "2008-05-15T18:09:13Z")
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### Author: ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/completely-erase-hard-drive/260449/21 "2008-05-17T15:56:54Z")

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Do this several times from within a Linux live disc (you might use [font=monospace]hda[/font] instead of [font=monospace]sda[/font]):

```auto
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

```

It’ll work great.

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