Re: Can anyone figure this one out? Its beaten more than one "professional computer technician".....

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From: dpoleshuck
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:00

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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 07:30:26 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rspeed@dragnet.com.au> wrote:

Now completely clear your hard drive and completely eliminate
>any possibility that something is being loaded at boot time by
>the remains of some boot loader left in the boot sector. The
>easiest way to do this is with a ute called CLEARHDD from
>http://www.sec.samsung.co.kr/support/contact/FILES/CLEARHDD.EXE
>
>That just completely scrubs all data from the first few tracks of the drive.
>

Does that utility work on all hard drives?

I am a teacher who is (with a lot of help from students) is fixing up
donated computers, some of which have some strange little partitions
on them. I am already using fdisk but am a little worried.

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From: davedeby@erols.com (dpoleshuck)
Subject: Re: Can anyone figure this one out? Its beaten more than one "professional computer technician".....
Date: 1998/12/16
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