Helpful tip -- the command line format command on Windows 7 and above allows you to write zeroes to the new drive.
FORMAT <drive letter:> /fs:ntfs /p:1
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
will be overwritten "count" times using a different
random number each time. If "count" is zero, no additional
overwrites are made after zeroing every sector.
Helpful tip -- the command line format command on Windows 7 and above allows you to write zeroes to the new drive.
FORMAT <drive letter:> /fs:ntfs /p:1
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
will be overwritten "count" times using a different
random number each time. If "count" is zero, no additional
overwrites are made after zeroing every sector.
FORMAT <drive letter:> /fs:ntfs /p:1
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
will be overwritten "count" times using a different
random number each time. If "count" is zero, no additional
overwrites are made after zeroing every sector.
It doesn't sound like it will always be zeros, but rather a random number each time for the /P parameter.
FORMAT <drive letter:> /fs:ntfs /p:1
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
will be overwritten "count" times using a different
It doesn't sound like it will always be zeros, but rather a random
number each time for the /P parameter.
Unless you do /p:0 ...
Re: Disk Wiping under Windows
By: Android8675 to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:43 am
FORMAT <drive letter:> /fs:ntfs /p:1
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
will be overwritten "count" times using a different
It doesn't sound like it will always be zeros, but rather a random
number each time for the /P parameter.
Unless you do /p:0 ...
It says the /p option is the "count", or the number of times to write, not the actual value to write. So /p:0 would have it write to the drive 0 times, or basically do nothing.
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume PF>>>> will be overwritten "count" times using a different
That options sounds to me like it zeroes the volume first, then writes the random values. So "/p:0" would just zero the volume. No?
FORMAT <drive letter:> /fs:ntfs /p:1
It says the /p option is the "count", or the number of times to write, not the actual value to write. So /p:0 would have it write to the drive 0 times, or basically do nothing./P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
will be overwritten "count" times using a different
That options sounds to me like it zeroes the volume first, then writes the random values. So "/p:0" would just zero the volume. No?
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