Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:20:35 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] L3 in Europe / Germany
>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:48:18 -0800 (PST) >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > You can always use WinHex to walk the sectors after zeroing out > > >the free space on these partitions to see if they get > > accidentally >overwritten. > > > > Say David... Have you mentioned the name of a good freeware data > >zeroing program? > > For WinHEX, simply see http://www.winhex.com/winhex/index-m.html > > For a free space zeroing program, http://www.uwe-sieber.de/ > Specifically - http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/wipefree.zip Thanks for links David. I looked around for a free space zeroing programs the other night, and was only coming up with ones that write zeros to the entire surface of the HDD. I'm just wondering if this WipeFree program is going to write zeros, or just leave more useless data on the drive. Here's what its readme says: "WipeFree for DOS creates files and writes to them until the drive is full. Each file can be up to 2GB and up to 1000 files can be created..." Have you used this program yourself yet? Seems UPS pretty slow these days. It looks like its going to take 7-8 days to get that new HDD to me... which means next Monday or Tuesday if I'm lucky. Matt Full WipeFile readme: ===================== WipeFree for DOS and Win32 by Uwe Sieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) expample: wipefree c: will overwrite the free areas of drive c: The free area can be up to 2000 GB! This would need about 55 hours if the harddrive writes with 10MB/s... WipeFree for DOS creates files and writes to them until the drive is full. Each file can be up to 2GB and up to 1000 files can be created... WipeFree32 can handle this by creating a single file. WipeFree32 can overwrite the free areas twice. The parameter for this is /2. When finished the file(s) will be deleted. Because I used only simple file fuctions it should work wihtout any problem with any filesystem. Caution: WipeFree doesn't overwrite files within the Trashcan (\RECYCLED). If you want to overwrite them, empty it before! That's all. It's Freeware. http://home.t-online.de/home/UweSieber _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
