Format hard drive overwriting it with zeros or writing zeros to the hard disk

[anon50939487]

Thanks.

[anon50939487]

Are the commands the same in every Linux distro?

[mihalycsaba]

my asrock bios has some secure ssd erase

[anon50939487]

nekem van hdd. most az biztos.

[anon50939487]

chikenf00t: Does it mean I have 2 hard drives built-in when 2 ata-WDC_WD… codes show up?
ls /dev/disk/by-id
ata-MATSHITA_DVD+_-RW_UJ8C1_SHB4100345 wwn-0x50014ee6ac1f07f7
ata-WDC_WD7500BPKT-75PK4T0_WD-WX51A71Y6825 wwn-0x50014ee6ac1f07f7-part1
ata-WDC_WD7500BPKT-75PK4T0_WD-WX51A71Y6825-part1

[brucehankins]

I had no idea certain parts of storage were managed by firmware. I’ve definitely ran full shred and some other data destructive commands on an nvme before. I bought one from a questionable Chinese manufacturer that was know to come with some windows malware preloaded…it was really cheap though

[mbod]

@anon50939487

Is there a GUI app on a Live USB system that formats an entire hard drive (drive, not partition) by overwriting each and every bit of the hard disk with zero or an app that writes zeros?

You are looking for tools like shred or wipe:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Securely_wipe_disk

In the past I used shred to cleanup old hdd before I throwed them away.

[dalto]

@anon50939487

Does it mean I have 2 hard drives built-in when 2 ata-WDC_WD… codes show up?

No. One of those is the partition on the disk.

[anon50939487]

Thanks to all for contributing. I accept keybreak’s solution in the provided link https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Securely_wipe_disk. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 status=progress works.

[anon50939487]

Unfortunately, my original problem (getting rid of a hard drive error report from a Pre-boot System Assessment at each startup) has not been solved by wiping the disk. Is it appropriate to ask questions on that in this discussion as the computer manufacturer or hard disk manufacturer are primarily in charge but turning to them was not successful, yet?

[Kresimir]

Well, there is no harm in asking, though I doubt you’ll get a concrete and helpful answer… This is just a very specific and hardware related issue.

[anon50939487]

Please find my topics in

DELL Community: https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-L502X-Pre-boot-System-Assessment-Build-4129-displays-hard/m-p/8328342#M105979
Western Digital Community: https://community.wd.com/t/wdc-wd7500bpkt-75pk4t0-s0-750gb-in-dell-xps-l502x-laptop-causes-error-reports/282392