wipe

[sekretskwerl]

I would like to wipe my HD clean because I have stored personal information and passwords and I heard there was a way to do this "low-level format". Anyone know a way to do a clean wipe of my HD? Also anyone know any drawbacks to the DFI motherboards?

[Dash]

I have a DFI K6BV3+, and P5BV3+ Rev.C, im very pleased with both of them, temperature monitors, etc, only drawback is no busspeeds over 100. Their BIOS updates dont come out very often either =(. If you do a regular format on your Harddrive, it should wipe it, the data is still on the drive, but gets rewritten as you install things, also to get data off a formatted drive cost's big $$$. You DONT want to do a LLF, Ive done it 3 times. On an old 127meg, Killed it, a 6.4gig that wouldnt be formatted regularly, it came out ok, and on a 540meg, which also died. I heard that LLFS should be performed only once in a drives lifetime, at the manufacturer, correct me if wrong anyone.

GL

[Pantion]

If you do a low-level format to a hard drive it will physically erase all the information on it. The problem with it is that if you don't really know what you are doing you will totally destroy your drive... it can still be recovered, but is better to avoid such option if able.

Perform a regular format and use an application (like the one included in Norton Utilities 2000) that will wipe free space if you want to make sure all the previous info. is erased. Also Nuts&Bolts includes a wiping program.

[medo]

Hello,

If you really want wipe everything from your HD then use command: format c:/u for any other drive jsut change the drive letter.
/u is there to disable unformat opreation.

Good luck

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[medo]

Sorry it should state:
/u is there to disable unformat operation.


Good luck!

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[smokin1]

Try BC wipe...it will be gone for good http://www.bcwipe.com/
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[commodsquad]

there is also a proggy called "eraser" that would do the job like bc wipe but if you are planning on wiping out the whole drive i dont think that it will work like that since i believe that it has to work in windows and you would only be able to erase files that werent critical to the OS ...
You could get a prog that will write zeros to the drive, though im not totally sure if that makes it so that things couldnt be restored..

[This message has been edited by commodsquad (edited 12-18-1999).]