complete HD wipe

[RobbieSan]

hey gang.. what is a good program to use on a floppy that will do an unconditional wipe of a HD?

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?

 

[the_tazinator]

fdisk, it is on any Win 9x/ME boot disk.

 

[RobbieSan]

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?

 

[phishhead]

do the fdisk and then make the partitions and then use the fdisk /mbr then format...try that

 

[the_tazinator]

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

 

[SickBoi]

a huge magnet.. muhaha

 

[scriptasylum]

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.

 

[Zedric]

"fdisk /MBR" will fix any problems with the Master Boot Record (cleaning some viruses needs this).