Remotely Wipe a Drive

[Guest]

Just wondering if there's a way to remotely wipe a drive. Like, on the OS level instead of using DBAN. 

[zombie-waffles]

Might depend on how you define remote access. Are we talking TeamViewer/Remote Desktop/VNC? If that's the case, I don't see why you couldn't just connect that way and use the built in Win 10 reset process. Haven't run it recently, but I seem to recall an option that at least does a 0-Pass or something. Out of any of them, I would think Remote Desktop would have the most support at questionable levels of OS initialization like when it's booted into recovery-type modes as it's built in to Windows.

 

If you're wanting to just trigger a wipe of the drive and then leave it empty/unusable afterwards, I would think your best bet would be some way of basically setting up something like DBAN to execute on the next startup from inside the OS and then trigger a restart.

[Joshuabishop4]

remote into the computer and perform a reset

 

[KuJoe]

rm -rf /*

[zanthros]

Of course it is possible. What level of access do you have to the target drive? Is the "remote drive on a network that you manage or have access to or is this a pc on the web that you have to get into? if it is the latter then you need to go and study and read up and understand for several years to get up to speed. good luck!