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izy
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Re: [XP Home] Selling Computer....Best Way To Get Rid Of Data

You can use windows cipher utility to overwrite the deleted information.

»support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/315672
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therube

join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD

 Note this warning on cipher in context to Win2K.
quote:
You must install Cipher.exe by using the installer package instead of copying the new version of Cipher.exe to your computer. The tool relies on additional NTFS functionality that is added as part of the installation process. If you only copy the Cipher.exe file to your computer and then run it, you could destroy data on the drive.

»support.microsoft.com/kb/298009/en-us
Cipher is included in XP Pro, but not in XP Home.

Does that mean that you can safely copy a XP Pro version & run it on XP Home? Don't know? Perhaps not. Because XP Home also does not support EFS.

Sysinternals SDelete may provide similar functionality & doesn't seem encumbered like cipher may be.
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dave
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said by izy See Profile :

You can use windows cipher utility to overwrite the deleted information.
Yes, if it's on the file system's free space list.

But if it's just sitting around in some database, logically disconnected but still part of some file, then it's not going to get overwritten.
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