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Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
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On 22/07/2012 11:38, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> Needless to say, that approach doesn't work under Windows.  <grin>

'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can just 
write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 .

-- 
Bruce Cran