PC Tech: Writing zeros to a drive

Chairman Kaga

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Does anyone know how to write zeros to a hard drive (not just delete a partition, i mean wipe out everything!)

I have done this with a gateway startup cd, but is there a way to do it in the fdisk program?

Thanks in advance

[ January 17, 2002: Message edited by: Chairman Kaga ]</p>
 

wjw123

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Originally posted by Chairman Kaga:
<strong>Does anyone know how to write zeros to a hard drive (not just delete a partition, i mean wipe out everything!)

I have done this with a gateway startup cd, but is there a way to do it in the fdisk program?

Thanks in advance

[ January 17, 2002: Message edited by: Chairman Kaga ]</strong><hr></blockquote>

Right click the drive - format it first, then use fdisk from a floppy disk or a windows startup disk to set up the partitions.
 
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