From: hoffman@xdelta.zko.dec.nospam Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:35 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Initializing all drives In article , Jay T. McCanta writes: :I have several vaxen that need to have their disks wiped before we :donate the A bootable OpenVMS VAX environment is available on current From the ATW posting of this question: -- OpenVMS VAX CD distribution kits, via a bootstrap into root [SYS1]. Use the console command: >>> B/R5:10000000 ddcu: Alternatively, load the required saveset onto an initialized disk, and bootstrap that, and then use that to initialize (INIT/ERASE) the original system disk. The OpenVMS Wizard will assume that you are aware that folks with sufficient money and sufficient interest can potentially recover at least some the data that is "left" on the target disk after an INIT/ERASE pass. This is not particularly easy, nor is this particularly cheap. It is, however conceivably possible. --------------------------- pure personal opinion --------------------------- Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman OpenVMS Engineering hoffman#xdelta.zko.dec.com