RE: Disk Wiping Utilities

[Craig Skelton]

If you are using a real operating system (*nix) then you can simply
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda 

Do that a few times. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Disk Wiping Utilities




I am looking for a good utility to erase all hard drives 
in a machine to a DOD standard. I would prefer a 
FREE utility as this is a government agency and I try 
to keep costs down.

I have read that Norton Wipeinfo, BCWipe and 
several other programs wipe only the known 
partitions. I need a tool that will wipe EVERYTHING !

TIA
Dan