Is this effective (erasing/formatting drive)

[Danith]

So I have to send a drive back to HP as they sent the replacement..and can't have company stuff on it.. so I formatted it, and created a batch file that did

start
Echo 010101010101010101..... >> garbage.000
goto start

(not gonna type it out excatly..)

Then when the file got to about 200 megs, I made another batch file that did

start
type d:\garbage.000 >> d:\garbage.000
goto start

and I figure I'll let it run until the disk fills up (or the computer starts on fire)..
then I'll format again, and run it again.. then format..

 

[drizzt81]

just use dban or something.

dban.sourceforge.org

 

[Farva]

see this thread. at least, that's what i would do. seems like you're putting too much effort into this.

 

[Farva]

yup, it's as easy as, mmm, pie

 

[drizzt81]

yup, it's as easy as, mmm, pie

like mmmm Pie?

 

[Farva]

that was so retarded i couldnt look away. lol.