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RPPonti
29 March 2010 | Help Requests | Disk Wipe Question
All -
I have downloaded Roadkil\'s Disk Wipe utility. I am wanting to completely wipe out a Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD20EADS that I ordered from Amazon.com. I have the drive hooked up to my Dell Inspiron E1505 via a USB SATA drive reader. Everything seems to be working correctly and the drive is recognized properly in the Roadkil utility. However, when the wiping process got to about 7% complete, the percent complete started to flash. What does this mean? The percent complete continues to go up (very slowly), but would like to know what the flashing means. Also, when selecting the Blank Disk radio button like I did, what does that really mean? What type of wiping methodology is being used? DOD short or standard? Finally, I have Passes made set to 7 since I thought this was the DOD standard. I am wanting to securely wipe everything off the hard drive ... I am trying to troubleshoot if it\'s defective or not and if I have to send it back, I want all data to be not recoverable.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick |
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