Norton WipeInfo for entire drive?

From: Ben Moss (ukbenny@aol.com)
Date: 12/13/02


From: "Ben Moss" <ukbenny@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:53:32 -0800

Not sure about WipeInfo, but PGPDisk will certainly wipe
all your free space for you (and any files too). It
won't, however, write over itself - no software-only
application can do this!

Ben.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm going to be giving away my computer and want to use
Norton WipeInfo to
>really erase everything on it. I see how to use
WipeInfo to wipe selected
>files and folders, but is there a way to get it to wipe
the entire drive,
>free space, registry and all? Or is it impossible for
this beast to devour
>itself?
>
>
>.
>



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