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From: tam on 4 Mar 2010 10:05
duckstandard wrote:
> Hi, I am looking for a simple way to make a bootable USB drive that
> will be able to use a utility to wipe harddrives. Preferably if it
> would securely overwrite bad sectors, and possible try to repair bad
> blocks or to make them ignored.
> If I said that all correctly. Thanks for suggestions.

I also use this HP format utility with great success. This utility will
format the usb and makes it bootable with win98. After format, you can
put other dos tool to perform various tasks.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-page,1/description.html
From: Susan Bugher on 12 Mar 2010 15:06
tam wrote:

> I also use this HP format utility with great success. This utility will
> format the usb and makes it bootable with win98. After format, you can
> put other dos tool to perform various tasks.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-page,1/description.html

That web page says version 2.18. Version 2.23 is available from
Softpedia (AFAICT v 2.2.3 is the last version):

Program: HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Company: Hewlett-Packard
Ware: (Freeware) (v 2.2.3)
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

Susan
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