Low Level Format Utility

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asyncd

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Greetings,

I'm looking for a utility that will perform an automatic format upon bootup without intervention. I work for a company that is donating about 100 old computers that were replaced with new equipment and we need to get all drives wiped (preferrably low-level) with as little intervention as possible.

I have searched around and have been unsuccessful in finding something that will perform this function on bootup. Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks.
 
Do not know of one that does that, without intervention. I use Dariks Boot and Nuke here at work. We do a level 1 DOD nuke on all of our machines before they go back to the lease company. It's a bootable cd that will auto run to start then it tells you when its ready and then you just type autonuke and away you go.
 
You generally can't low-level format hard drives nowadays.

However, DBAN will accomplish what you're looking for; which I assume is to wipe the disks for security reasons.
 
Are you planning on using the drives afterwards? If not, take them all to a scrap shredding yard... they will rip those drives in thousands of pieces and pay you for the metals.
 
DBAN can automatically wipe on boot but you need to edit the syslinux.cfg which resides in the dban img on the iso.
 
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