Need hard Drive Formatted into oblivion

tech_hunter

So my girlfriend was trying to help a friend out and get a machine formatted and windows reinstalled.

Well I guess the disk she is using was a little flakey and it started erroring out, this was during the phase where it copies files to be installed.

So she starts it back up and tries to get to the point where she can re do the partitions but it stops at 11% of loading the files again.

So what I need is some kind of bootable program that will wipe out this hard drive completely.

Something that can be put on a floppy cd thumb drive whatever. It does need to be able to format NTFS partitions, since when she created the partition the first time not sure if she chose ntfs or not

Ludious

http://www.dban.org/

tech_hunter

This looks like it will do nicely, thank you good sir

vonPoonBurGer

I'm not sure a wipe program will resolve this issue, but DBAN is a good choice for that sort of thing. Generally though, if the Windows installer was able to format the drive but then had errors when copying files, I'd be suspecting faulty hardware.

cooljammer00

I'm pretty sure Windows Installer can wipe and destory partitions for you when you install.

Rook

Might be worth checking out The ultimate boot cd which has a tonne of HDD utilities to play around with and see if there's a problem with the drive.

DBan seems like it might be a bit of a liability to have lying around, or if your friend has more than one HDD installed

embrik

Rook wrote: »

Might be worth checking out The ultimate boot cd which has a tonne of HDD utilities to play around with and see if there's a problem with the drive.

DBan seems like it might be a bit of a liability to have lying around, or if your friend has more than one HDD installed

This is what I'd suggest to. The disk needs to be checked for problems, plus DBan is on the UBCD, so you get two for one!