Shouldn't take too long to do. DBAN is a good alternative if the Windows CD for some reason fails to work or you just wanna keep the Department of Defense from seeing what was on there. However, DBAN can take a LONG time to run depending on the size of the drive and method you use to nuke the info on the hard drive. My current record is 2.5 days on a 250 gig 7200 RPM HD on the 7 pass DoD erasing setting.
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