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# Empty disk
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## prepare rescue USB stick
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We use system rescue procedure to empty the disk, its anyhow very handy to have a USB stick with this rescue OS.
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see https://www.system-rescue.org/Download/
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see https://fastly-cdn.system-rescue.org/releases/11.00/systemrescue-11.00-amd64.iso
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![](img/balena.png)
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we use balena etcher tool to burn the ISO onto a USB stick, its a very straight forward process to burn the iso on a USB stick.
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the tool can be found on https://etcher.balena.io/
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## now boot computer with the USB stick
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make sure bios has been prepared to boot from USB see [here](1_prepare_bios.md)
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![](img/usb_rescue.png)
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after booting you should see something like this
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Select first item
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![](img/rescue2.png)
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check which disk to erase do
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```bash
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sfdisk -l
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```
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![](img/sfdisk.png)
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in this case we see /dev/sda... which is the USB stick we are booting from and /dev/nvme0n1 which is the internal nvme disk, this is the one we will have to empty
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## empty the disk
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Be careful following command will erase your disk completely !!!
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![](img/rescue_erase.png)
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```bash
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wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1
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```
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Now your disk is empty, go to next step to boot Zero-OS
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