Hex editor for Linux

[grimm003]

Hey, I am using Knoppix Linux and I am going to do a reformat of my win xp and I just thought I would zero out the whole thing(it's sort of an old hd and I would like to know how to do it). What's a good hex editor. Then should I format that partition, then use the hex editor to zero what it missed or just straight zero it all. thanks for some help

[OSGentoo]

I'm not sure i understand your question.

[khiloa]

I'm not sure what he really means either.

[Chris_F]

You wouldn't use a hex editor to remove windows xp. You would just delete the windows partition and or reformat it.

[grimm003]

alright, well nevermind. I'll figure it out. Maybe I dont make sense, I just know duct tape wont fix it

[MRD]

There are a million good hex editors for linux. Just search for hex editor in the gentoo package database. However, that's not what you would use to zero out a drive. If you want, you can just pipe /dev/zero to /dev/hda and that will fill up the drive with 0's. (or /dev/random will do it with random numbers).

[Chris_F]

In case you want to know how to do that its: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx where x is the drive letter and partition number.

[grimm003]

thanks for the help