BCWipe question

[JC00]

I just used bcwipe to erase the hard drive. I heard that low level format is good for overwriting the files that are missed during format. Do you recommend this BCWipe software as an alternative to low level format?

[mike breck]

How did you format the "entire" HD with BCWipe?

I thought it was a "Windows-based" utility for securely deleting files and wiping the free space and slack in Windows. In other words, you wipe the files instead of deleting them in the normal day-to-day running of your PC.

To wipe a HD entirely, you'd be just as well to use a Zero Fill utility from your HD manufacturer. This is called a low level format by some HD manufacturers, but really this is a misnomer. Zero fill and Wiping are really intermediate or mid-level formatting.

The only low-level formatting done these days, is by the manufacturer before the HD leaves the factory.