On Wed, 25 May 2005, Deron Meranda wrote: > If nothing else you can always wipe the drive the forceful way; > boot into Linux (or the recovery disk) and do something like, > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 > > **Warning, that will delete EVERYTHING on the hard drive! Is bs=512 necessary or useful? Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing? -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."