Is it possible to partially format a HDD ? I'd like to
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Is it possible to partially format a HDD ?
I'd like to wipe my unwritten sector's without having to format the whole disk and without having to partition the disk.
Is this possible ?
run a magnet over part of the hdd instead of the whole disk
>>55447220
This.
>>55447201
Wipe free space you mean?
Download Eraser. Chose to erase empty space. Chose gutman 35 pass erasing method. Wait until the end of times. Done.
>>55447363
this
thanks, i'll try it after a defragmentation.
You can do this using dd which is native to flavors of Debian.
You can write zeros or random data starting at a specific sector, cylinder, or byte all the way to a specified endpoint. You can pinpoint the data in between partitions as long as you know where they start.