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Old 04-24-2003, 09:40 PM   #17
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It bears repeating that a true low level format WILL destroy an IDE drive, but it's safe on SCSI and MFM, and I believe ESDI. If you want to wipe an IDE drive, you use a zero fill, if you want to remove evidence even better you use some kind of secure wipe multiple times.
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