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Fill your hard disk drive with baadf00d

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:12 am

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Here is a useful PERL script to create binary files filled with the hex codes ba ad f0 0d. This badfood or baadfood is used by Microsoft memory allocation code.

I call it baadf00d.pl

Code:

$thestring="\x{ba}\x{ad}\x{f0}\x{0d}";

#1024^3 / 4
#or 1 gigabyte / 4 bytes
$counter=268435456;

while($counter > 0 )
{
print $thestring;
$counter--;
}

It can be useful when you are clearing out an old hard drive. This will write a 1 gigabyte file called test1.bin out to your hard drive

Quote:

perl baadf00d.pl > test1.bin

The space on your drive will then be filled with BA AD F0 0D bytes as the file grows.

Fill your hard disk drive with baadf00d

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