Re: RE: Disk Wiping Utilities

From: dude@coruscant.net
Date: 03/29/02 

From: dude@coruscant.net
To: SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:01:02 -0500

without a doubt. I have seen people retreive deleted files from a HD
that was formatted using DOS utilities.

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> Advanced recovery will still be able to get some data back
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> -----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
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> 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
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> > 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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