gloptnitch
03-30-2006, 12:32 PM
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?
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gloptnitch 03-30-2006, 12:32 PM 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? Spike 03-30-2006, 12:50 PM :wave: Welcome to Techspot :wave: Yes. Dban :D http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Never run it by accident. lol. Make sure you mark the CD. Ad 03-30-2006, 12:50 PM gloptnitch 03-31-2006, 02:57 PM 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? Spike 03-31-2006, 05:42 PM Yes. It should take about 3 or 4 hours on an 80GB ide disk in a reasonable system. It takes a while. Jimbo420 03-31-2006, 07:57 PM 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. |
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