F-Disk Hard Drive

[gloptnitch]

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]

:wave: Welcome to Techspot :wave:

Yes. Dban

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Never run it by accident. lol. Make sure you mark the CD.

 

[gloptnitch]

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]

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

It takes a while.

 

[Jimbo420]

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.