Once you successfully boot into the Ubuntu desktop, you will first need to determine the device that your SSD drive is assigned to. iso into a bootable USB drive however, after following their Mac OS X instructions carefully, my MacBook Pro did not want to boot Ubuntu via USB so I ended up burning a CD-R.
SECURE ERASE SSD WINDOWS 7 HOW TO
On the Ubuntu download page, there are also instructions on how to conver the. Update: It seems Ubuntu only supports v10.04 LTS now, as their oldest distro, so use Google to find v9.04 if your computer is more than 2 years old, otherwise v10.04 will do just fine. Nevertheless, after successfully wiping these two Intel SSD drives using the “secure erase ATA command”, I am posting an updated copy of those Wiki instructions that are now down the… world wide drain!įirst of all, go grab the Ubuntu v9.04 Live CD image () and burn it to a blank CD-R with your favourite application (either on Mac or PC). However, to my surprise, the site doesn’t carry that information anymore (I barely caught the Google-chached page) so I started digging up the web again for a possible fresh set of instructions and compare them to my notes. I recently wanted to completely wipe ( not format) my two Intel X25-M Solid State (SSD) Drives that replaced the ones found in my MacBook Pro (2007) and my Dell Mini 10v (2009) so I went back to a favourite website -that I had saved- to seek instructions using Ubuntu’s Live CD: