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Any user friendly Hard Drive erase utilities?
ChadTower:
Now that tommy isn't around anymore you need a new random quote source.
EwJ:
--- Quote from: ahofle on February 28, 2008, 07:14:10 pm ---Sorry to piggyback onto your request, but I am also looking for something similar, except that it completely wipes the free space on your disk (ie really deletes deleted files so they cannot be recovered).
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That program (Eraser) (and others that run in Windows) won't completely wipe the free space as Windows 'locks' the swap file (page file/virtual memory). So if you're concerned about any content there, you would have to use a dos type utility to wipe all the free space (believe you can make the boot disk with the program)....or ...to do it in windows, set your page file max and min to zero, reboot, wipe all free space, reset your page file size, reboot.
--- Quote from: knave on February 29, 2008, 02:28:54 pm ---I would pretty mich like to stick with something that used the DOD compliant method.
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That's another nice feature of that program...you can select dod 3 or 7 pass, a single pass, a 35 pass, etc. from a context menu for single/multiple file 'shredding' as you go, as well as for free space wiping.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 29, 2008, 02:56:38 pm ---
Smash it into a Nintendo joystick.
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lmao
protokatie:
Can someone confirm for me if SpinRight has a cleanout feature? If it does, it would prolly be about the best you can get...
Oh, and since noone mentioned it: if you need to be REALLY sure in a hurry, when the men in black coats show up, just blast the thing with a shotgun, im sure that would make quick work of any retrievable info on the disc...
* protokatie reminds everyone to get a copy of spinright, as it is the only available program that goes to the voltage level when dealing with data on the disc, and can save many a headache... (If only I myself would get off my own but and drop the 80 bucks for it)
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