an option would be to abort the boot n nuke and try the
Seagate Disk Wizard Starter Edition
once you boot and launch the disk wizard; you will find a
zero fill or drive eraser program. Make sure you dont use the big drive enabler or any of that big drive prepartion stuff that is DDO >>>> avoid that
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...ads/discwizard
PS ***** I dont know that it's faster; but I would expect so as its not DOD approved nor do they refer to it as a "secure" process. The secure part of the process is what takes sooooo long.