clear harddrive

[Cannon]

hey this is a noob question but i am trying to wipe my harddrive through my bios is there ne way i can do it. and if so can you hepl??? thx

[Jason425]

no

[Uranium-235]

actually some bios's support 0-writing a HD clean, but it takes a long time

anyways, it's doubtful your bios supports it. You would probably have to boot to a startup disk, and use windows format. Unless you're under NT, then the windows 2k/XP installer will format it for you

[xckid082488]

i prefer to use GWBASIC (kill "C:/*.*") :biggrin:

[Jason425]

deltree *.*

[Cannon]

i got it fixed i just booted a windows 98 utilties and wiped it with that so now everything is up and runnin strong!!!

[Jason425]

win98 = :cry:

[xckid082488]

lol win xp pro sp2 8)

[Jason425]

i'm starting to have painful second thoughts..(about sp2) but i'm still trying to figure out what is bringing my laptop to a screetching halt about once a min for about a sec... a little annoying.. still trying to figure it out...

[vee_ess]

What are you trying to accomplish with this? Are you trying to permanently delete the data so that software like Ghost can't see it (low level format like what U235 mentioned - all 0's), or just basic stuff that hides it (like a format or repartitioning)?

[Dragon]

go to maxtor and get maxblast. itll boot to the disk, then just use utilities to zero fill it. then reboot and use the same program to set it up.

oh yeah youll need it on a floppy.