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/dev/zero equivalent in windows?
I am trying to use the windows version of dd to copy a RHEL iso to a USB stick. However, I wanted to zero out the drive first to ensure there is no filesystem on it before writing it out. Is there an ...
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How to zero fill a virtual disk's free space on windows for better compression?
How to zero fill a virtual disk's free space on windows for better compression?
I would like a simple open source tool (or at least free) for that. It should probably write an as big as possible file ...
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zeroing a disk with dd vs Disk Utility
I'm attempting to zero a disk on my Mac OS X machine. I'm going for complete zeros and unformatted, so I think of dd. Unfortunately the maximum throughput I've managed to get out of dd is 7MB/s. ...
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WipeDrive Utility?
What is the best and fastest wipe drive (zero fill) utility that can be burned to a CD?
