Wiping with DD leftovers

[russo091 at gmail.com (Dmitry Nedospasov)]

I'm sure all of you know that just zeroing it the whatever, isn't  
really "wiping". With the appropriate tools you can still recover the  
data.

Might want to look at a DoD 7-pass erase... Or even: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method

Just making sure ;)

D.

On Aug 8, 2009, at 20:55 , Adrian Crenshaw wrote:

> Ive noticed something. If I use the Windows DD from http://www.chrysocome.net/dd 
>  and use this command:
>
> C:\Users\adrian\Desktop\aft>dd if=/dev/zero of=\\. 
> \Volume{de891b6a-8432-11de-86d4-005056c00008} bs=1M --progress
>
> it seems to leave some data on the beginning (sometime) and end  
> (always) if the drive had  been formatted NTFS before.
>
> I'm using WinHEX to verify by the way. Any ideas?
>
> Adrian
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