Zeroing Out HD..How Long?

[BigGuynRusty]

IronMac wrote:
Hi all,

Am zeroing out a 60-gig drive (8-pass with Panther) and I was just wondering how long will this take? It says that it's writing random data to the drive but the progress bar has barely budged!

Thanks.

If you are trying to clean the drive so know one can get data off, it is quite useless.
Zeroing will not prevent that, off the top of my head I know five techs that can read data off that HDD no matter how much you zero it.
Very little equipment needed, regular PC, and some software.

BGnR