Oh, I forgot that I'm currently planning on trying such a procedure on a
system running ME, and on another system running XP. My string actually
started with a question about my ME system.
Richard

Mike M wrote:
Out of curiosity can you give a reference please to where WD say to write
zeroes before installing an OS. I would be interested to read this since
I have never done this in many years of working with PCs and would be
interested to learn their reasoning for this suggestion.

Not that it is relevant to the question of "writing zeroes" but I hope you
appreciate that you are posting to a newsgroup supporting those wishing to
setup the old Win Me operating system rather than XP, hence the
"windowsme" in the title of the newsgroup.
CQuirke;
Your links are very interesting, but the specific troublesome problem
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don't find anything), or maybe my system just needs replaceing.
Thanks again

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