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does wipe drive delete MBR?

 
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jclarke
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:07 pm    Post subject: does wipe drive delete MBR? Reply with quote
I was concerned about a possible boot sector virus.I used the DOS version of Wipe Drive (3.0.0, purchased in 2003) with three passes to wipe the hard drive. Then I used DOS FDISK.EXE to create partition and reinstalled Windows XP.

Was the old MBR wiped with this method? If not, how does one wipe the MBR?

Thanks.

John
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Daniel
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi John,

WipeDrive does wipe out the MBR entirely. Anything stored there is removed.
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jclarke
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Daniel,
Thank you.
John
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