RE: Disk Wiping Utilities

From: Philip Wagenaar (pb.wagenaar@chello.nl)
Date: 03/28/02 

From: "Philip Wagenaar" <pb.wagenaar@chello.nl>
To: "'Bassam ALHUSSEIN'" <bhussein@scs-net.org>, <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>, "'Dan Williamson'" <dan.williamson@courts.state.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:42:36 +0100

Advanced recovery will still be able to get some data back

-----Original Message-----
From: Bassam ALHUSSEIN [mailto:bhussein@scs-net.org]
Sent: woensdag 27 maart 2002 21:38
To: SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com; Dan Williamson
Subject: Re: Disk Wiping Utilities

I am not sure but I thought that a format then fdisk would do the job
....wouldn't it ??? correct me guys ..plz

Bisso
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Williamson <dan.williamson@courts.state.pa.us>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: Disk Wiping Utilities

>
>
> I am looking for a good utility to erase all hard drives
> in a machine to a DOD standard. I would prefer a
> FREE utility as this is a government agency and I try
> to keep costs down.
>
> I have read that Norton Wipeinfo, BCWipe and
> several other programs wipe only the known
> partitions. I need a tool that will wipe EVERYTHING !
>
> TIA
> Dan
>
>

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