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How to format a hard drive partition in Windows 7
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24-04-2011, 12:21 PM (This post was last modified: 24-04-2011, 12:23 PM by CrazyT.)
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda1
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Also, only untick quick format if you're worried about the data that is on the drive being recovered by FBI :tongue


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