The Great Zero Challenge

[Caspar Bowden]

> admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mary Hawking
...
> "We used the 32 year-old Unix dd command using /dev/zero as input to
> overwrite the drive. "
> Is this command as efficient as Slashdot implies, and if so could I run
> it on Windows 98, 2000 and XP?

FYI - there's a Microsoft command-line utility which can be used to overwri=
te deleted data
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315672/en-us

Caspar