Need to return a hard drive....help to erase!

Biz.Kid09 · 8 Sep 2011 at 12:26

I have got Kill Disk now and its running One Pass Zeros.
Is that a good method to use?

Will that erase it fine?

Tribune · 8 Sep 2011 at 12:33

Worked for Gary glitter.....oh wait..

Biz.Kid09 · 8 Sep 2011 at 12:43

Tribune said:
Worked for Gary glitter.....oh wait..

If your not going to help why bother posting?

Anyway, KillDisk seems to be going along nicely. 602mins left so roughly 10hrs?

panyan · 8 Sep 2011 at 13:17

Biz.Kid09 said:
Did it take that long?

the drive died whilst it was doing it - i just RMA'd it after

Biz.Kid09 said:
I have got Kill Disk now and its running One Pass Zeros.
Is that a good method to use?

Will that erase it fine?

it will erase it fine - enough for an RMA

Biz.Kid09 · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:25

panyan said:
the drive died whilst it was doing it - i just RMA'd it after

it will erase it fine - enough for an RMA

Ah ok.

Well if you call taking back to the supermarket a RMA then yeh

Aod · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:40

Supermarkets sell Hard Drives these days? :confused:

Biz.Kid09 · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:59

Aod said:
Supermarkets sell Hard Drives these days?

Yeh, the one i went to had been selling 250gb for £1, 500gb for £5 etc but i got too late and only had these 2tb left.

BTW i left kill drive and it is now fully working

, i am going to leave it for a while and see if its ok before putting any files on there.