Darik’s Boot and Nuke is based on a stripped-down ... can only erase and overwrite hard drives and SSDs. The freeware Disk Wipe is suitable for USB drives. Open the program, select the drive ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on ... this device is often called the boot/system drive or disk. After doing away with the existing disk layout ...

For instance to boot from pxelinux: LABEL disk-eraser LINUX vmlinuz INITRD initrd.img APPEND root=/dev/ram0 quiet The image may also be booted using kexec to remotely erase a machine over SSH, though ...