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How do I reformat my hard drive with XP installed?
what kind of bootdisk does zapdisk run from?
personally if i need to wipe a drive, i use maxtor low level format or maxllf. it was orginally written for maxtor drives, but i have run it on more different hdd manufactures than i can remember, maxtor do not seem to offer a download anymore, but you can get a copy he http://ftp.hiroshi-group.com/drivers...s/Maxtor/40Go/ it will one pass null your entire drive - enough to stop most people with recovery programs, however its depend how secure you want: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...ecure_del.html describes some recovery techniques - a better bet maybe to use eraser which can do 35pass wipes. there are some commercially available machines that can blast drives with very strong magnetic fields to completly wipe the data - i forget the company - i have heard from a banking company that they physically crush their drives after use... -----Original Message----- ZapDisk is a great utility, it fits on a boot disk. When you run it, it wipes the MBR and track 0. You have to reformat the drive. -----Original Message----- And how do I clear off all info on disk, (government format/wipe)? |
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