Personally, I've always used a product from http://www.jetico.com/.
On Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 17:06:04 UTC, g...@ross.cx confabulated: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:08:56 +0200, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>> 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can >>>> just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . >>> >>> who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or >>> openbsd,netbsd,linux,solaris,whatever usable)? >> >> Nobody - I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, >> but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative. >> > Microsoft's format.exe can zero a volume, at least in the newer (>2008) > versions: > /p:<passes> : Zeros every sector on the volume for the number of passes > specified. > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730730(v=ws.10) -- If at first you don't succeed... ...so much for skydiving. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
