Dale Sykora wrote:
Now I'm wondering what's the best way to destroy all the data on the drive so I can return it without my stuff, unreliable or not, on it.
you can use shred and even loop it a few times
Also, doesn't the seagate utility have a low level format function? I haven't used one of those utility disks in ages, but that used to be standard fare.
Cheers,