Writing random 1's and 0's?

[BIB]

anybody know of a good program that will write random 1's and 0's to a hd?
this is my drive that is messing up and i have to return it to western digital, so i want to make sure that none of my information is on it.

[Cjwinnit]

If you feel the need to scrub the drive there are a few utilities that will do it. http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ or http://securedisk.netfirms.com/defaultekm.htm

[BIB]

this will work just fine. Thanks alot.

[XWRed1]

Cygwin can do it too. Install Cygwin on a Windows box, and you can do something like:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdb

To write random junk to a drive. Replace /dev/urandom with /dev/zero to zero out a drive. dd is really nifty.

[glebka11]

I am not shure but i think your HDD util can do it for you...
depends on wich hdd r u using.

[Borisw37]

you dont need to write random 1s and 0s, you just need to write ALL 0s. Its called "Low Level Format", virtually impossible to recover data (maybe FBI can but dont want to get into that discussion).
Each HDD company has its own utility:
http://www.disk-utility.com/hard-disk-low-level-format.html

[deathman20]

Actually if you do a Low Level Format 7 times thats CIA grade for erasing. So I'm sure that if you do that you won't jack off that drive again. Unless you put something else on it :)

[XWRed1]

ach HDD company has its own utility:
http://www.disk-utility.com/hard-di...vel-format.html

Or you can just use something like Cygwin and do it to any drive, any time, without rebooting or wasting your time single-tasking.