"Howard" <Howard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8518426C-E3A9-4906-AC15-95BA66941BA8@microsoft.com...
> It seems to me that most elaborate third party erasing programs are
designed
> to erase an entire physical hard drive
>
> I'm looking for an erasing application / tool that will fully erase a
> selected partition of a multi partitioned hard drive instead of the
whole
> hard drive
>
> Please note this request is for said tool to be capable of fully
erasing an
> entire partition including the boot sector of any Windows XP partition

Check out Terabytes copy/wipe utility. They have excellent (although
a bit geeky) software and support AND very reasonably priced too !!
(I am only connected to they via my VISA card ... )
http://www.terabyteinc.com

mikey