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Re: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities?
From: "Vlad Tsyrklevich" <vlad () zoomstats org>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:02:05 -0800
Robert Funderburk writes: [snip]
I would like to see someone do it.
3 times is not much, it'll take about 35 times of overwriting the drive with a pattern like that to get rid of it to a point of making impossible (99% depending on luck, equipment, and quality of program), so 3 isn't that many times. Eraser is a good tool for Windows users, it gives you *excellent* options, you can even make your own patter to overwrite your hard drive with :-). shred is a good command for UNIX to do that also.
---Vlad Tsyrklevich
Current thread:
- Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Champion, Steve (Feb 10)
- Re: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Jason Dixon (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? John Hendren (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Robert Funderburk (Feb 12)
- Re: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Vlad Tsyrklevich (Feb 13)
- Re: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Leo Security (Feb 12)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Robert Funderburk (Feb 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Moeckel, Sharon (Feb 11)
- Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Joris De Donder (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Melameth, Daniel D. (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Gary L. Batchellor (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? MacFerrin, Ken (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Sullivan, Glenn (Feb 11)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Ben Steele (Feb 12)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? David Verty (Feb 12)
- RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? Patrick Debois (Feb 12)
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