Re: Wiping Win2000 partiton

Hi,

sdelete -p 3 -z d:

will go to drive d: with 3 wipe passes...

Did you actually try and recover the file in readable format? File names are
stored in different part of the hard drive (partition) then data itself.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Allan" <aballardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f1d0r11sgmp04gi8adjg4a0ni2udcdnhf1@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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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