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Old 11-03-2002, 03:48 AM   #1
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Zero Fill Program

Anyone know of a good free zero fill hard drive program?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 11-03-2002, 08:15 AM   #2
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Hi UFOResearcher,

Go here and scroll down the page to "Cleaners" and give Wipe/Zap a try.

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Old 11-03-2002, 10:35 AM   #3
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Most of the hard drive manufacturers have a zero fill as part of their free download diagnostic/utility programs.
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Old 11-12-2002, 06:22 PM   #4
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GLC is correct, i recently used Maxtors Powermax program to do that. And I also have used Western Digital's Lifeguard tool for the same. Did that on an 80 GB drive, took several hours to complete.
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