On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, chloe K <chloekcy2000 at yahoo.ca> wrote: > What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? If you want to securely remove the data, I recommend using a tool like DBAN. If you want to just wipe out the partition & boot sector for a clean reinstallation, dd'ing the disk with zero for a couple of Mbytes is more than enough. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org