Re: Wiping Win2000 partiton

Hi, and thanks.

I found cipher in Win2000 and ran it against a small partition "H" to
test it. The "H" partition is only 8 gigs large. It didn't have the W
parameter (cipher /?), but the W parameter appears to work anyway.

I'll run it agains the "D" partition, but it will take all night since
"D" is 30 gigs.

Cipher did not nail the one file that shows as recoverable on the
small "H" partition.

I downloaded SDelete, and attempted to run it, but so far, it insists
on applying itself to the "C" drive. Is there a way to point it to the
"D" partition?

I tried the same switches in your cipher example, but it wants to be
told something else.

Thanks again.

Allan

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:21:05 +0100, "Miha Pihler [MVP]"
<mihap-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Allan,
>
>Try SDelete (free) tool from www.sysinternals.com
>http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/SDelete.html
>
>I am not sure about Windows 2000, but on Windows XP and Windows 2003 you can
>also use tool called cipher that comes with Windows.
>
>This option would remove all data from unused disk space on the entire d:
>drive.
>
>cipher /w:d:\

.

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