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December 12th, 2006, 06:52 PM
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I have an Abit NF7S V2 motherboard with SATA raid. Not using raid and just have one disk attached to one of the 2 SATA ports. I want to write the drive to zeros but I'm not having any luck with KILLDISK. I'm guessing it only works with IDE drives. Any one have a method of doing what I need to do here? This drive has been badly infected and I do not trust to just format it. I want it cleaned good. 
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December 12th, 2006, 07:01 PM
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maybe boot 'n' nuke will work http://dban.sourceforge.net/
take a look around their site to see if it'll do what your looking for, i found this much so far
DBAN has all available drivers for IDE, PATA, and SATA disks.
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December 12th, 2006, 07:10 PM
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Thanks Shucky. If you don't hear from me for awhile you'll know it worked. | |
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December 12th, 2006, 07:15 PM
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ive used that program a bunch for HD formatting, my boss thinks its the "cheap" way to guarantee data removal, we'll hes just taking my word for it, he likes to hit them with a claw hammer on their way out  | |
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December 12th, 2006, 07:50 PM
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Forgot about the wife's computer. Dban is working as advertised. Thanks for the info. Glad my OS drive is only 80 GB. It's going to take a while.  | |
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December 12th, 2006, 08:02 PM
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no prob, yep it takes awhile, most of the HD's i "fry" with it are under 20gb usualy 2-10gb so its not that bad | |
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