Alan,

This site talks about downloading a disk image and another file to be used
to place the image on a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Is this image file what you
have on CD?
http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/install.html

Here are two other programs that will clean the drive:

Active@ KillDisk
http://www.killdisk.com/

Eraser
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

Unless you're going to part with the drives by donating, selling, or
otherwise disposing of them, I wouldn't be too concerned about doing more
than a normal format before installing Win 2K. The installation and
subsequent use of the drive (in time) will overwrite what was on it. Either
way, Win 2K isn't going to know the difference.

Sven Swanson, Sr.

----- Original Message -----
From: "alan smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] FORMATING [ erasing ]


I have 3 40 gig hard drives that I want to ERASE completely so that I can
install Windows 2000 PRO and start fresh. I've downloaded
Autoclave0.3 onto a CD. It is supposed to do what I want. Is this
correct, or can someone suggest a surefire way to clean these hard drives.

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