DOS based Zerowriter ??

[Rebuilt]

Does anyone know of a DOS based utitlity that will write 0's to a partition only, and not the whole hard drive? I use WD drives, and their wipe program takes partitions with it. I want to do a clean install,but do not want to wipe out my other partitons and everything in them. I understand that formatting alone will not wipe the drive of old data. Is formatting enough or should I keep looking for a partition "honoring" dos based wipe program?

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[elzt]

Does your HD contain confidential data that you don't want anyone to retrieve them? If no, then a simple formatting would do for clean installation.

 

[Rebuilt]

Naw, nothing top secret here. Thanks for the feedback.

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[nach]

Does anyone know of a DOS based utitlity that will write 0's to a partition only, and not the whole hard drive?

I am not sure you will find one that does just a partition, because zero writes occur at sector level and not cluster.

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[chandanarahul]

Just do format this partition and the new data will replace the old one and no need to worry.