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  • 1.  How to obliterate a PGP Encrypted Disk - Partition and DATA

    Posted Nov 10, 2012 05:37 PM

    I really had a difficult time getting PGP to go away - I was using FDISK on my MAC but while it looked like it was making changes, it did not.

    I tried Darik's Boot and Nuke - you can Google that - and it killed everything the disk.  I had no trouble after that using TrueCrypt (you can google that too) to encrypt the whole drive.  



  • 2.  RE: How to obliterate a PGP Encrypted Disk - Partition and DATA

    Posted Nov 12, 2012 05:14 AM

    You cant format a disk thats loaded and in use, or were you using FDISK on a different physical disc?  Boot n Nuke is a very handy tool, great for wiping discs clean



  • 3.  RE: How to obliterate a PGP Encrypted Disk - Partition and DATA

    Posted Nov 12, 2012 05:22 AM

    It was an external drive.



  • 4.  RE: How to obliterate a PGP Encrypted Disk - Partition and DATA

    Posted Nov 12, 2012 12:21 PM

    Fdisk doesn't wipe the MBR. DBAN does. If the PGPMBR is still in place, then you will have difficulty using the drive. Another method is to use DD like so:

    dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/VOLUMELABELHERE