Zeroing a hard drive.

[Jerry Bryant]

I'm decided to overwrite a 2GB Maxtor hard drive. The drive checked out 
as good. I opened up the external firewire case connected to the B&W, 
G4 458MHz, with 896MB of RAM and hooked the Maxtor up.

I fired up Disk Utility and proceeded to zero the drive. The progress 
bar with broken bars that states it is preparing to zero the drive went 
on for about 6 hours before it started writing zeros.

As of now, the progress bar shows that it is about 1/10 into the 
process. I know, from past experience that overwriting a drive is a 
lengthy process, but, this has been going on for 52 hours and it's only 
a 2GB hard drive.

Any thoughts? BTW the machine is running 10.3.5
J. B.
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