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Looking for a Network Deployable Remote DoD Disk Wiping Utility

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by eylusion1

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I have been looking all day, I've found thousand of disk wiping programs, but before I try to start hacking and slashing my way through a program that I could somehow deploy using a batchscript that modifies someone's autoexec.bat file or something. I am looking for an application to Wipe a Hard Drive on a remote computer according to the DoD 7 pass format. This isn't to start formatting people's computers willy nilly, in my job I deal with a lot of end of life pc's that are about to get shipped off to recycle, and I have to manually Wipe each one using a bootable cd. The work load has become to great, and I don't have the time to walk people through downloading an ISO and burning a cd, or doing it myself for each pc. If there is possibly an application out there that sync's with Active Directory, or let's me choose a remote host on the network to initiate a restart with a dod wipe that would be absolutely freaking fantastic. And please no one recommend EBAN, it's a PXE server running inside of a VMWare session, that is not what I'm looking for.

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by robo_dev

So if the PC reboots, it begins wiping itself and the user shuts it off, you're shipping an unwiped or partly wiped drive offsite.

Technically there may be a way to do this, but practically you would have no way to be sure.

by eylusion1

At this point I don't care, i'm tired of shipping cd's, walking to machine booting with my own cd's or walking people through burning a cd...

Granted this is really not a problem because everyone here is pretty anal about this kind of stuff and will wait for it to finish.

Ohh also as an edit, it's not even my responsibility, if say they only half wiped something and all of a sudden some social security numbers and credit card numbers or something ridiculous like that started popping up in the public, and it was traced back to that employee, it's their butt not mine. So completion details, like logs, or centralized reporting is not important. But remote hard drive wiping is :D

by eylusion1

So I guess no one really has any idea's on this, aye? Because I'm still in the dark here.

by shasca

I, just like you looked around for an auto wipe program that would do what you required. I didnt' see anything that fit your Criteria.

Wipedrive is the product chosen by the State of Wyoming to do all our PC/Laptops but it requires some user imput even when using GPO, and command line switches. It does however run from a floppy, and there could be a way to create a batch file. But we have not had a need for this type of processing. It will log completed wipes which is helpful.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&fkt=1262&fsdt=5502&q=wipedrive&btnG=Google+Search

by eylusion1

That appears to be the case across the board, unfortunately i've looked at most of the products I can find and none of them seem to be able to be network initiated.

by paraflux

it involves running a script that first secure wipes all the empty space on the drive
then repartitions a section of the drive to a new partition
copies over a working winPE install in .wim format then reboots the pc using a ram disk bootloader which then extends itself into another ram drive big enough to load the whole .wim into it
then import the scsi drivers or whatever into winPE, run the secure wipe on the hdd's and then have it submit whatever kind of report you need back to you. (ie, some random hex samples of various parts of the drive)

by older mycroft

Nice of you to post such a vague answer to an already dead thread.

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