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Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
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On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can 
>> just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 .
>
> who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or 
> openbsd,netbsd,linux,solaris,whatever usable)?

Nobody - I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, 
but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative.

-- 
Bruce Cran