I need a zero utility

[Calibretto]

I need to zero out my hard drive. Anybody know a good program that can do that? MaxBlast won't do it I guess.

 

[Cromewell]

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard/ it has 2 different zero fill options and a bunch of other stuff too

 

[Calibretto]

^^^What option would I use to zero out the drive? There seems to be no option that I can see that does that.

 

[Cromewell]

The download routine for DiscWizard Starter Edition creates a bootable diskette. Boot from the diskette to start DiscWizard Starter Edition. After startup, select Utilities | Zero Fill Drive (Quick) or Zero Fill Drive (Full). Select the drive you want to erase, then select Zero Fill or Low Level.

the difference between the 2:

Zero Fill Drive (Quick) will write over the beginning of the drive that includes the critical partition information, eliminating all partitions and information on the drive including the Master boot record. This is useful if you have a drive that has a corrupted partition or that you wish to erase to reinstall a fresh operating system and new data.

Zero Fill Drive (Full) will write over the entire data area of the drive. This is useful if a drive has bad sectors that cannot be fixed by the operating system. This will also erase all the data on the drive, but it will take several hours.

 

[Calibretto]

Ok I got it going now. I created a bootable CD and then zeroed it out. There was a safe version and a full version. I went to use the Full version and my computer just shut off....weird. So I then tried the Safe version and it worked.