So, I have this sweet 64gb USB 3.0 drive,
and for some reason the edgier side of me really wanted to turn it into an 3L1T3 H4X0R device, so I formatted it and made it a Live bootable version of Kali.
But now my incompetence has caught up with me and I actually need a storage device I can use and access with Windows. What's the best course of action for erasing all data on the thing without harming it?
Reformat it.
format it?
I don't know what you mean by harming it
>>54365644
I just figured that some methods of wiping data might not be optimized for electronic storage devices, considering they have a limited number of writes and all
but I'm a fucking noob so that's why in asking for advice
>>54365701
The most writes I've seen so far in terms of wiping will write over the data 35 times. Most flash drives guarantee at least 100,000 writes.
>>54365626
Use Rufus. It will delete all existing partitions and put the usual Windows-friendly layout of one big partition over the whole device. It can be used to fix messes where Windows sees your 64 GB drive as 1 GB and reformatting doesn't help.
>>54365626
write 0's on its entirety.
>>54365830
>>54365943
Thank you for the input my dudes
>>54365626
>wipe
Use a damp, lint-free cloth.
shred -vzu -n 9001 <target>
shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
v: verbose z:zero on final pass u:delete when done -n 9001 over 9000 writes instead of default 3
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/*
If you want to do it in Windows, diskpart clean all
>It's a pedophile thread
