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Only use Rod Speeds suggestion on Samsung drives.  Each drive manufacturer has
their own utility to clear a hard drive.  They are not interchangable.
I would suggest you simply fdisk to clear all parts. create a new one, format it
then run an antivirus program,  Mcafee, Norton, ete, to scann for virus.
You can get a free trial of mcafee that should suit your purpose.  Being in a
classroom situation you should have some type of antivirus program running all
the time.  With the mass appeal  of the internet, our virus activity has gone up
from students bringing in disks from home.

Later...


In article , davedeby@erols.com says...
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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.
>
>