On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I thought I'd ask here, since its related to a lot of the stuff people have written for the PC platform in these parts. I need to securely wipe a bunch of data from an MS-DOS hard drive, so that it can't be recovered. Are there any readily available utilities for this? Will any of them selectively erase only data that isn't allocated to existing files?
Perry
Norton Utilities has been able to do this for a long time. I think the program is called <wipedisk> (wipe "unused" area of a disk), and I believe there's also a <wipefile> that will obliterate a file. These things are supposed to conform to some unspecified "government guidelines," so you decide how good they are. My guess is that they're plenty good enough. --D. -- Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com http://wfmu.org/~davem