Christine, Seagate and western digital both have great diagnostic tolls that you can boot into. they will allow you to write zeros to the drive very easily. The only way to recover data after that is to use forensic tool, which would require removing the platters from the drive. Hope this helps. JOsh On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 19:02 -0500, Christine Pilch wrote: > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net -- Sanguis Development Web site development and hosting, for life.