On Wednesday 27 June 2007 16:00:30 Kevin Chen wrote:
> I'm try using a Program called "wipe" to clean out my old hard disk
> (40G). But seems take a very long time to do it, It took me 1 hour now
> and not even look like will finish soon,
thats's usual wipe overwrites every sector about 30 times to make sure that no
data is left on the hdd, i do not think that time would differ much between
40gb and 200gb drive because during the process of enchanting the capacity of
drives the speed was improved also.
But it will take a lot of time to wipe the drive
if you want to do single write off
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever_drive_you_want bs=512
Belgarath
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