Re: [MLUG] favorite shredder utility

[Gene Worth <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It appears that Western Digital has a utility for the same thing:
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Fromshop/diags/wddiag.htm

So, I'm going to guess that every hdd manufacturer has a utility on 
their web site that will low level format a drive ... and that will 
write zeros to the drive.

gene

Duane Hargus wrote:
> On Thursday 02 January 2003 09:37, Rick Buford wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone have a favorite boot-on-cd shredder utility? We have several
>>machines that will be going back to Dell, and there is some concern that
>>we need to remove our information from them before they go back. Does
>>something like Knoppix have a utility that will rewrite the hard drives?
>>
>>Rick
> 
> 
> On the gateway cd's, they have a utility for writing zeroes to the hard disk; 
> I think ist is something like gwscan.exe and the cd is bootable.  just an fyi 
> since we seem to need the utility to get windows to re-install properly 
> sometimes (an fdisk and reformat doesn't clean the windows virus from a pc).
> Duane Hargus
> 
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