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F-Disk Hard Drive

Discussion in 'Software Apps' started by gloptnitch, Mar 30, 2006.

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  1. gloptnitch Newcomer, in training

    I am going to wipe a drive with Win 2K on it and install Win XP. When I do this, I not only want to f-disk, but change the HDD back to all 0's like it is new. Anyone know which products do this?
    gloptnitch, Mar 30, 2006
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  2. Spike Newcomer, in training

    Spike, Mar 30, 2006
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  3. gloptnitch Newcomer, in training

    I have f-disk before, but never changed back to 0's. Someone told me to start it when I go to bed and it SHOULD be done when I wake up.. does it really take that long?
    gloptnitch, Mar 31, 2006
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  4. Spike Newcomer, in training

    Yes. It should take about 3 or 4 hours on an 80GB ide disk in a reasonable system.

    It takes a while.
    Spike, Mar 31, 2006
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  5. Jimbo420 Newcomer, in training

    Think of it this way. It is basically the eqivalent of writing an 80GB file to your heard drive. Every single bit has to be written. Or I guess in this case rewritten. That is a lot of data to deal with.
    Jimbo420, Mar 31, 2006
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