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October 18th, 2002
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complete HD wipe
the reason I ask is that a while ago I got infected with a virus or something weird happened where tehre are a number of FAT, NTFS, or Linux partitions some small some large as far as size reports go.. I want to compeltely wipe this HD.. can anyone recommend a simple program to do this that will fit on a floppy? |
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October 18th, 2002
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fdisk, it is on any Win 9x/ME boot disk.
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October 18th, 2002
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nope, I tried that.. need to completely wipe the drive not play with partitions.. I did use Fdisk originally and wiped out the partitions and rebuilt them.. after that and full format the stuff I need to get rid of is still there.. I need something that simply wipes/overwrites every single piece of info.. thanks for the response all the same taz.. btw, what is she riding?
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October 18th, 2002
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do the fdisk and then make the partitions and then use the fdisk /mbr then format...try that
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October 19th, 2002
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What kind of stuff is going on with the hard drive? Could it be a physical problem with the drive? Have you tried any disk diag. tools from the manufacture?
btw.... I will never tell 
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a huge magnet.. muhaha
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October 19th, 2002
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You might be able to "low-level" format the drive. This type of format is much deeper than fdisk or normal format. I would go to the manufacturer's website or support and see if they have a program that will do that. I think you can use a low-level format program from a different drive manufacturer, but cannot be sure.
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