Quote Originally Posted by dresac
hmm..well i went to super and entered it in... the computer seems to be processing something, but I didn't get any sort of confirmation that the command was correct. What is this doing exactly?

edit: ah I see, its sort of like an extensive format
You see nothing? Good! It IS a format- a low-level format in fact that literally writes zeroes to the entire disc surface. There is nothing left on the disc (well ok maybe a forensics specialist could find something).