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US 6,675,317 B2Granted
Method and system for determining erase procedures run on a hard drive
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsStephen Woodrow Murphrey, David B. Rhoades
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Abstract
A method and system for erasing a drive of a computer system is disclosed. The method and system include scrubbing the drive and writing a message to a portion of the drive such that the message will be provided to a user in response to the drive being booted after scrubbing. The message indicates that the drive has been scrubbed.
Claims17
A method for erasing a drive of a computer system comprising the steps of:
- (a) scrubbing the drive;
- and
- (b) writing a message to a portion of the drive such that the message will be provided to a user in response to the drive being booted after scrubbing, the message indicating that the drive has been scrubbed.
A computer-readable medium containing a program for erasing a drive of a computer system, the program including instructions for:
- (a) scrubbing the drive;
- and
- (b) writing a message to a portion of the drive such that the message will be provided to a user in response to the drive being booted after scrubbing, the message indicating that the drive has been scrubbed.
A computer system comprising:
- an erased drive;
- and
- a message written to a portion of the drive such that the message will be provided to a user in response to the drive being booted after scrubbing, the message indicating that the drive has been scrubbed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.