Lawrence MacIntyre wrote on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 16:39:04 -0500: > I'm assuming that you asked the wrong question, and that you don't > actually want to format the disk, but you do want to remove all of the > data on them. If so, you want the following: > > Darik's Boot and Nuke <http://dban.sourceforge.net> Is it faster than 'dd'? Markus