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FarCry2

join:2002-01-01
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reply to trparky
Re: Hard Drive Wipe?

You can try Darik's Boot and Nuke.
»dban.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps

eburger68
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join:2001-04-28

reply to trparky
WedgeAntilles 250:

There's a list of small DOS secure deletion utilities here:

»www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/soft10.htm#dos

That page also contains a list of "drive sterilization" apps:

»www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/soft10.htm#drive

For those who don't care to visit the page:

** DOS Wipers/Erasers **

Delen, Wipe, & XRD
»www.cc.jyu.fi/~vjko/programs.html

Eraser (w/ ERASERD.EXE)
(formerly by Sami Tolvanen)
»www.heidi.ie/eraser/
or »sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/
or »www.tolvanen.com/eraser/

RealDelete
»www.bonaventura.free-online.co.u···ldelete/

Scorch
»www.bonaventura.free-online.co.u···ldelete/

WipeFree
»www.pc-tools.net/win32/freeware/wipefree/

** Drive Sterilization **

Active Kill Disk
»www.killdisk.com/eraser.htm

Acronis Drive Cleanser
»www.acronis.com/products/drivecleanser/

Autoclave
»staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)
»dban.sourceforge.net/

Disk Wipe
»www.dtidata.com/products_disk_wipe.asp

East-Tec DiskSanitizer
»www.east-tec.com/dsksanit/index.htm

WipeDrive
»www.whitecanyon.com/cleandrive_m···disk.htm

WipeOut
»www.securitysoftware.cc/apps.html

Note that some of the above programs are free; others are not.

Hope one of the above does the trick for you.

Eric L. Howes

dave
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reply to trparky
DoD wipe sounds a bit like overkill, though maybe I misunderstand the circumstances. If you simply write zeroes to the entire drive, the drive is then zeroed, except for attacks using specialized equipment.

You can get a utility to write zeroes to the entire drive from the disk vendors (they seem to be vendor-specific, though I don't know why).

Markus will now tell us why the disk ought to be physically shredded


trparky
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I need a utility that can be used upon a boot of a computer to totally wipe its hard disks.

It must be able to fit onto a floppy disk and be able to do a DoD-style wipe of a drive.

Reason: A friend of my father's is retiring from the Post Office and he wants to rid his computer of all personal information.
--
WedgeAntilles250


[text was edited by author 2003-02-25 08:05:53]
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