Zeroing Out HD..How Long?

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IronMac wrote:
Well over 12 hrs later, it's only about a third of the way done.

malfunction, wish I had seen that link earlier! I would have gone with only one pass instead of eight.

Oh yeah, it's an internal drive.

Were you doing a full erase of the drive, or just a "zero unused space" type of operation. The latter will likely take longer.

Also were you booted from the install CD/DVD, that's the only way I've ever done this, especially an internal drive.

What computer? Is it an old iBook with a 4200 RPM drive?

If it take 36 hours, then you're only seeing about 3.7 MB/Sec write speed which is really slow.