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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Nuking a hard drive
Message-ID: <52325@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 May 91 18:48:17 GMT
References: <15212@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <15212@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>	Could someone please tell me how to nuke my hard drive?
>
>	That is, what blocks I can zero so that NEITHER GS/OS NOR ProDOS
>can see it.
>
You're not being specific enough.  Are you trying to nuke it so that there
are no partitions whatsoever?  Or are you just trying to erase the file system
on one partition?

To do the latter, zeroing blocks 2 through 7 should do it.  To do the former,
you ideally want something like Chinook's SCSI Utilities.  However, you should
be able to use ADU to repartition into one big partition and then format the
drive.  This seems to work for me.


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