[windows2000] Re: Zeroing out a hard drive
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:52:20 +0200
Ray Costanzo <> scribbled on Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:29 PM:
Admirable that somebody might want to actually do this!
Dban is the way to go. Be aware that it might take a while to wipe it using
the standard wipe, the DoD one. A simple one-pass wipe will take about one
hour, depending on how fast the hd is.
See http://dban.sourceforge.net/. Download the iso and burn it to a cd and
boot from it. Voilá. And, it's free too! 8-D
HTH.
> Hi list,
>
> A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron laptop that she intends to give
> away, but she wants to zero-out the hard drive before doing so, as she's
> not comfortably with just a normal format. Does anyone know how to do
> this? In my googling, I keep coming across a GWSCAN tool, but it seems
> that the GW stands for Gateway, so I don't know if I should recommend
> that. Any ideas?
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