RE: [WinMac] Re: Wiping Data on a PC

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:20:19 -0500

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Depending on the manufacturer of the hard drive, there may exist diagnostic
software to write all zeros to the drive. I know Western Digital has such a
program, it's called WDDIAG and you download it from the western digital
website. I'm pretty sure Seagate et al. have similar programs.

For military-grade security you are required to write zeros to the drive
seven times unitl it is considered to be "clean".

ian

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Johnson [mailto:johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU]
>Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 2:15 PM
>To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Re: Wiping Data on a PC
>
>
>Actually, no, that doesn't work...what he wants is a uutility that
>overwrites the file several times. A reformatted drive can be
>recovered.
>
>You could always fdisk the drive, then repartition it, then
>reformat it.
>THAT would work ;-)
>
>A quick perusal of www.winsite.com, the Info-Mac of windows
>archives ;-)
>revealed two programs that would do this:
>
>Eraser21.zip
>eteraser.zip
>
>The first is freeware, check 'em out.
>
>
>Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>
>> It's called "reinitialize the hard drive"!
>>
>> Works for Macs too.....
>>
>> > Is there a similar program for the Windows world?
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Johnson
>> jjohnson@wi.net
>>
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>Bruce Johnson
>University of Arizona
>College of Pharmacy
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