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Zero filling my HDD before installation

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Hey everyone. I'm currently looking to switch to Debian from Windows. I
used to love windows, but with every upgrade it seems I lose privacy,
control and honestly functionality. Sure, there's a lot more I can, if that
wasn't mitigated by what windows wants me to do at the time. I should have
never even moved on to 10...constantly interrupting or flogging my system
to ask me to upgrade in the middle of sensitive work should have been my
tip off....I digress...

My question is this: I know what Zero and Random fills do to a drive, I run
them on every USB and Sd/MSD card I buy or retrieve, and everytime I
repurpose them. But I've never done this to a HDD and my laptop is my only
accessible PC aside from my Galaxy S6. I've backed up all my important
documents to multiple cloud locations, so I'm not worried about losing user
data. I'm just wandering, is it safe to Zero Fill an HDD before installing
Debian from a USB ISO? I know I can boot to the ISO and Zero or Random
Fill, or other sani methods from the USB Booted Debian, but will doing this
to my hard drive stop me from being able to install from the USB to the
HDD? I guess because I've never really messed with the BIOS in windows,
aside from neccisity, I'm just worried if I zero fill and for some reason
my laptop reboots before the new install, it won't boot from the USB
anymore and thus make me have to find another computer from which to
install DB. This is probably a rookie question, but better safe then sorry
with my first full HDD sanitzation. Thanks!!!

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Zero filling my HDD before installation CD Lexi <cdl3x1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 17:20 +0200
  Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation "heqamilus@runbox.com" <heqamilus@runbox.com> - 2016-05-02 17:40 +0200
  Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation "heqamilus@runbox.com" <heqamilus@runbox.com> - 2016-05-02 17:50 +0200
  Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-05-02 17:50 +0200
    Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-05-02 18:10 +0200
      Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation "heqamilus@runbox.com" <heqamilus@runbox.com> - 2016-05-02 18:30 +0200
        Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation "heqamilus@runbox.com" <heqamilus@runbox.com> - 2016-05-02 19:20 +0200
          Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 19:50 +0200
            Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation "heqamilus@runbox.com" <heqamilus@runbox.com> - 2016-05-02 20:00 +0200
            Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Michael Luecke <michael-t0gi6s@mluecke.eu> - 2016-05-02 20:40 +0200
              Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 21:20 +0200
          Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-05-02 20:00 +0200
          Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation hu2016 <hu2016@hmamail.com> - 2016-05-02 20:00 +0200
  Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 01:10 +0200
  Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation Thomas D Dial <tdial@cox.net> - 2016-05-03 01:10 +0200
    Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation CD Lexi <cdl3x1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 01:30 +0200

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