From: kay-archer@mail.com.deletethisandtherest.nospam.com   
      
   "Ray Jenkins"  wrote in message   
   news:n460b.8511$_P1.5712@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...   
   > Thanks Kay --   
   >   
   > I thought I had done the things you suggest, but I will retrace all my   
   steps   
   > once more, using the online guide which you linked me to.   
   >   
   > It is mystifying that I can't just wipe a disc totally clean. This   
   > "compressed volume and disc cache utility" seems to be a Dracula. No   
   matter   
   > how many times I drive a stake through its heart, it keeps coming back.   
   >   
   >   
      
   The next step is to write zeros to the entire drive.  Most HD manufacturers   
   have free software that will do this (to their drives).  Some BIOS offer an   
   option to low-level format hard drives (same as writing zeros to entire   
   drive).   
      
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