Good formating utility for Seagate drives?

[DashK]

Does anyone know any good utilities that can re-format/write zeros to your drive? I'm looking for one to format with, I use Gwscan, but am wodnering if there is something better, thank's

Seagate hard drive, I use Disk Manager to write the dos partition, but am wondering if theres anything else better to format with.

 

[VBboy]

LOL.

Type "format" at the command prompt 🙂
You can safely use ANY utility. There should be no reason to do a really low-level format. Doing a full format with the "format" or with Windows will work fine. If you're worried about data security, use Symantec's WipeInfo to delete your data.

 

[KevinMU1]

format from a DOS prompt doesn't actually write out 0's, I didn't think, but I could be wrong.

But, if your BIOS has a HDD Low Level Format option, that does write all 0's to the drive. Any award BIOS should have that option.

 

[TBC]

You probably need some kind of disk wipe program. I have heard of them before but can't remember at the moment. I'll see if I can find any info unless someone else does.

 

[Slatz]

Here is a great one, try zdnet to download it it. You have ther option of 3 passes up to 30 passes (which would take forever). Format Secure. I have been using Format Secure for a year now on customer systems and it gets rid of any and all data forever.