You may try going to the manufactures webpage and get a program that will
write zeros to the drive like wd has ezdrive.
Jimmy Hodges

> I am looking for utilities that can guarantee me that the hard drive will
be formatted.  So that when you try to use a recover utility you will not be
able to find anything on the hard drive.
>
> So far I have:
>
> 1. Normal format of C: and D: drives.
> 2. Destroyed the partitions and re-created the partitions (different
sizes).
> 3. Normal format of C: and D: drives.
> 4. Used a shareware formatting program that over wrote cluster by cluster.
> 5. Re-created the partitions again.
> 6. Installed NT on the system.
> 7. Installed Windows 2000 on the system.
> 8. Installed NT on the system.
> 9. Installed NT on the system.
> 10. Installed Windows 2000 on the system.
> 11. Used PowerQuest's lost and found product (a DOS level utility), found
multiple directories.  Since it was a trial version unable to restore any of
them.
>
> Any ideas whould be great,
>
> thanks
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