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Would love to understand more how this all works on Linux and how something is so quickly and effortlessly is done on a Windows system, yet so complex and hard to do on Linux (for me anyways in regards to formatting a hdd when it was my own fault for following the wrong instructions trying to encrypt it.
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Turned on Windows 10 in Virtualbox, right clicked on drive in My Computer, then format, a few seconds later. However, it worked great on a 8GB USB stick I test it on. I has not worked on the 1TB external USB HDD. I found this Repartition and format your USB stick tutorial by have followed the instructions on from his tutorial with the script provided. Job: Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sda’Ĭreate new partition table on device ‘/dev/sda’: ErrorĬreate a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/sda’: Error strong text May someone please help me with this.īTW, I came across this erase an external disk (USB, SD-Card, …) EASILY (through a GUI) by, and thought that it resolve my problem, however this is the error message I get it when using KDE Partition Manager, after pressing Apply on step 9 (apply new partition table)Ĭreate a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/sda’ How do I got about starting over, how do I just format the whole thing and have a hard drive that’s usable. Now I cant seem to do anything with the hdd including to reformat it.
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Well, the confirmed by pressed enter on keyboard after the second passphrase this is the error message I recieved: WARNING: Locking directory /run/cryptsetup is missing!Īnd in Dolphin file manager, this is what the error message was: An error occurred while accessing '931.5 GiB Encrypted Drive', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: No such interface “” on object at path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d2 Got asked to enter new password, then to verify it. Typed in YES during prompt if I am sure I that I want to continue with overwriting data.
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Steps I took after plugging in my 1TB Seagate portable HDD and the error afterwards, always as the messages error in Dolphin file manager: Additionally, depending on how worried you are about someone taking the data, it can be difficult to ensure that some drives are truly non-recoverable.Hoping someone may guide me through resolving the issue of my HDD no longer working by something going wrong with encryption failure. You have to be sure to choose the right disk. Wiping a drive is dangerous because you can lose data permanently. You can use the dod method to wipe disks. Scrub uses some methods to operate on disks. When used without options -a or -o, it lists all visible filesystems and the offsets of their signatures. Scrub: please verify that device size below is correct! wipefs can erase filesystem or raid signatures (magic strings) from the specified device to make the filesystem invisible for libblkid.wipefs does not erase the filesystem itself nor any other data from the device. To scrub hard disk, you can do as below # scrub /dev/sda5
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The command is not available by default, you should need to install it on your Linux system. The scrub command can be used to overwrite data using patterns. Okay to WIPE 1 special file ? (Yes/No) yesġ file wiped and 0 special files ignored in 0 directories, 0 symlinks removed but not followed, 0 errors occured. Then, install the wipe command # yum install wipe Warning: rpmforge-release-0.5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY Install it # rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release*rpm On Centos 7 , you need first to download the rpmforge # wget The following NEW packages will be installed:Ġ upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 322 not upgraded. The command is not present by default, you need to install it. The wipe command has the command below wipe You can use the wipe command in order to wipe data on a disk. The wipe command can be used to securely erase files from magnetic media. It is possible to use shred with random data as below # shred -v -random-source=/dev/urandom -n10 /dev/sda2 So, to wipe the partition you can use # shred -vfz -n 10 /dev/sda2
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The shred command is used to overwrite the specified files repeatedly and make it difficult for software to recover the data. # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 bs=4096 2) shred