I need as many oppinions on this one as possible please. I need to know what the best program to write zeros to my western digital sata drives would be please,,,,...... I have a bad boot sector and need to wipe both drives.
There's BCWipe, which can do all zeros up to DoD 7-pass standards and such. There's another one I used before called WipeDrive. I don't know if any are free or if they have trials or not. If you still can't find one, search for and download Hiren's BootCD. You just boot to it from your CD drive and then it has some wiping tools I believe. Ultimate BootCD is another option that should have some wipe appz. Good luck.
Message edited by gwolfman on 02-20-2008 at 04:09:31 PM
The UBCD doesn't have to good of options from what I read on it's site supprisenly. I am going to try the estern didigital boot cd first as they said it will work with Vista and what not and it will write zeros for me. If not then I will start trying these other programs. I appreciate the input thank you.
The UBCD doesn't have to good of options from what I read on it's site supprisenly. I am going to try the estern didigital boot cd first as they said it will work with Vista and what not and it will write zeros for me. If not then I will start trying these other programs. I appreciate the input thank you.
What? You may want to work on your reading comprehension. UBCD has Active@killdisk that will write zeros no problem. I have used it several times. It also has Memtest86+ etc.
Right , I just need to delete the boot table and format the drive to start all over because my boot table got corrupted that's all. I',m going to use the active@ Killdisk program.
Writing zeroes does not prevent someone frome recovering the data off of it. Use one of the more advanced options, if you want to be safe.
To recover data off a HD that has had a zero write done to it, you need at minimum a clean room and some custom equipment to read the platters after disassembling them from the HD, or a scanning tunneling electron microscope.
You're correct, it's not impossible to recover the data. But if your adversary is going to that kind of effort to recover your data, I think you may have more problems than worrying about which drive wiper you used.
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I just wanted to wipe out my boot sector and I thought about it and I know what caused this. I had, a new 780i board and had my array on it and yanked the array out and stuck it back onto my old GA-P35-DQ6 and that kind of pissed the two drives off a little. This writing zeros will wipe out the boot sector right? I noticed that it actually only shows 232 Gb out of the 250Gbs they are supposed to be a piece, according to western digital and I wanted to make sure that I'm not wasting my time here with this and it just doesn't touch the boot sector.
I am going to give it a go. I knew there had to be a good one out there some where. Thank you so much.
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