One guy that I work with from time to time told me about a utility he used to wipe hard drives for a government job. It was called Triple Erase. It makes 3 passes over the entie disk. On the first pass it writes all 0's, then it writes all 1's and on the third pass it writes all 0's again. Now, if there is a way to recover the data on the disk after that, I would like to see someone do it.
-----Original Message----- From: John Hendren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:13 PM To: 'Champion, Steve'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? I like Eraser, it does a better job than many others I have tried. It can 'erase' ntfs alternate data streams, swap file, cluster tips and its easy to use. It's thorough and now open source too. http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/ Although, if your going to throw them away anyway...the most secure and fun method involves sledge hammers and other blunt force instruments. ;) -----Original Message----- From: Champion, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Suggestions on free XP hard drive wiping utilities? > Would someone please throw out a URL and suggestions for free Windows > XP, hard drive wiping utility's? Something that will wipe a drive to a > machine that's going to be donated or thrown away? > > Preferably something thorough? > > Thank You > Steve Champion > Sr. Data Security Analyst > The Methodist Hospital. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
