Short: Quickly erase all data on a disk Author: Pavel Fedin Uploader: Pavel Fedin Type: disk/misc Version: 1.0 Replaces: WipeDisk.lha Requires: AmigaOS v3.0+ Architecture: m68k-amigaos 1. BACKGROUND This program can be very useful if you wish to sell your old HDD. Just start it, and it will erase all data on it completely, even partition table will be deleted. The disk will look like as if it was never used before, every sector on it will contain zeroes. 2. INSTALLATION No special installation procedure is needed. Just copy CheckDisk program to everywhere you want, for example to C: directory. 3. USAGE It is very easy to use this program. Just go to CLI and enter: WipeDisk . As you see, it works with physical, not logical devices. So it will erase the whole hard drive, not only one partition. After startup program asks you if you really want to do what you are doing. So be extremely careful and check everything before pressing 'Y'. You will NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER YOUR DATA if you erased wrong drive!!! The usage of this program is not limited to hard drives only. You can use it on everything, like ZIP disks and even floppies. For example: "WipeDisk scsi.device 1" will erase all data on your slave hard drive. At any time you can interrupt the program by pressing CTRL-C on the keyboard. But REMEMBER: this DOES NOT MEAN that nothing happens to your data if you do it. Of course some data will stay on your disk but it will be VERY DIFFICULT to get that pieces back because partition table on the disk will be already destroyed! The program is compatible with modern drives (large HDDs, DVDs, etc) with media size greater than 4 GB. If it detects that the media is large enough it will use trackdisk64 standard to access the device. Of course, your device driver must support this standard. But it usually does if you use such device. 4. RE-COMPILING To recompile WipeDisk from the supplied source code you'll need modern version of include:utility/utility_lib.i file. The file supplied with SAS/C is old and does not contain UMult64 function definition. You can generate a new file from FD file with FD2Pragma utility, which you can find on Aminet. 5. HISTORY V 1.0 - initial release. 6. DISTRIBUTION This program is absolutely freeware. I include its source code with it, you are free to use it as you wish. 7. AUTHOR My name is Pavel Fedin, i live in Moscow, and my E-Mail is: sonic_amiga@rambler.ru. You are free to leave comments and bug reports.