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In article <829936245snx@holly.demon.co.uk>, Mark Rogers
<mcr@holly.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>I'm looking for a quick way of wiping a disk, in the way that "format 
>/q/u" does. That is - wipe the FAT and be done with it. No need to go 
>through the whole disk deleting files one at a time.
>
>Why not use format /q/u, I hear you ask? Well, because it only works on 
>floppy disks. I can't use it to wipe, for example, a hard disk, a ZIP 
>disk, or a stacked (compressed) disk. Doing these things is, of-course, 
>dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but I *do* know what I'm 
>doing and not being able to do it is frustrating!
>
>("Wipe" was probably a poor choice of wording. I'm not interested in the 
>security implications - I don't need the data to be removed from the disk 
>so thoroughly that the US government can't get it off. I just want the 
>disk to report "empty" and allow me to put new files on it.)
>
>Any ideas? 
>
>Mark.
Fdisk and format are the two obvious ways, but just a thought, consider
using Disk Manager from Ontrack Computer Systems. This program, I think,
comes with most larger hard disks now and will do both the jobs in one
and very quickly. I think also that DM will do a disk as is, so if its a
200Mb HDD then whether or not it has been compressed or stood in gravy
it will still process a 200Mb HDD.

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TC