Wipe tools to wipe harddisk under MS-DOS

[SunDown79]

Does anyone know of any tools that will allow me to wipe a harddisk (in this case a miniscribe XTA harddisk on a card of 20MB) running MS-DOS ?
Just something simple as writing zero's would do.

 

[SomeGuy]

Norton WipeDisk will wipe either erased space or all files on a FAT drive. I prefer version 4.5.

If you need to re-write every last bit on the drive, including the partition table, then do a low-level format.

Although if a partition table is borked, I usually fire up Norton disk editor and manually zero the first sector - when something wonky is going on, usually doing that lets me see exactly what it it.

 

[modem7]

Back in the day, I wrote my own DOS based tool. Get it from [here].

 

[SunDown79]

Thank you both @SomeGuy and @modem7 , will give them both a try tomorrow

 

[Vin Digit]

Back in the day, I wrote my own DOS based tool. Get it from [here].

Thanks for making this available. Would it be possible to release the source code for this? I'm looking for a wiper like this to use on MFM/RLL drives but one that uses the Gutmann method. Having the source code would allow me to add a Gutmann wipe in

 

[modem7]

Back in the day, I wrote my own DOS based tool. Get it from [here].

Thanks for making this available. Would it be possible to release the source code for this? I'm looking for a wiper like this to use on MFM/RLL drives but one that uses the Gutmann method. Having the source code would allow me to add a Gutmann wipe in

If you re-fetch the tool, you will find that the newly updated zip file now includes the source code.

 

[wrljet]

Turbo Pascal, now that's a surprise!

 

[EverStaR]

I have found Dispart.exe on modern windows is very effective at wiping clean CF and SD cards to be used in IDE to CF/SD card readers. List disk, select disk, list part to confirm, clean.