Re: [SLUG] Clean Hard Drive

From: Robert Snyder (res03q8w@gte.net)
Date: Thu Jul 21 2005 - 10:59:58 EDT


Branko wrote:

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>>>>Western Digital's site has a tool for doing that. That's what I use...
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>>What's the name of the tool?
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>Did you mean Data Life Guard, that comes with their HD's? That only
>writes zero's to the disk; I gues I could run it a couple of times. Now,
>will that remove partitions, too?
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I happen to use the tool from Seagate on my drives.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html
Note use the bootable ones and not the windows version. Tell it to a
zero fill then it will ask if you want full or lite zero fill say full
and then it will ask if you want to low level format. ( note I am using
a older version but it should be in the same place) Pick Low Level
format. it will take care of your needs. Then reinstall the OS. Never
give out a computer with out doing a fresh install of what ever OS you
happen to choose.

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