Here's a brief history of what I tried and how each solution hasn't fit my requirements. I considered the Forensics Acquisition Utilties wipe but it's a one-pass wipe intended only for full sanitization but not data destruction. From what I can tell, Berke Durak's wipe (http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/) is exactly what I would want but it won't run under Windows. I also tried running Durak's wipe from a bootable Helix CD but Helix mounts the drives read-only by default, not letting you use the tool. I installed a free Windows tool with a GUI called Erarser, but it made registry changes and required a reboot. There appear to be several good commercial solutions, but I'm looking for something free. I'm looking for something (that is hopefully as simple as a command-line tool) that I can place on a CD to perform a Gutmann wipe of specific files on a hard drive in a computer, without installing anything on that target computer. Preferably this could be done without requiring to boot from the CD (for the sake of saving time) because I trust the binaries on the target system. Any tips? Thanks,
Seth Robertson
