Need program pointers
Hey all! I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers. Both for MS-dos. First, a good secure delete program. These I know exists, which are good? Second, I don't know if this exists. I've never heard of one but it should! I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused sectors. It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after the end of a file. Suggestions? Thanks, Don -- America - a country so rich and so strong we can reward the lazy and punish the productive and still survive (so far) Don Melvin storm@ssnet.com finger for PGP key.
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Hey all!
I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers. Both for MS-dos.
First, a good secure delete program. These I know exists, which are good?
I've had good experience with Norton Wipefile.
Second, I don't know if this exists. I've never heard of one but it should! I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused sectors. It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after the end of a file.
Norton Wipedisk (in the same utils collection with Wipefile) will do this, including wiping the trailing bytes from unfilled clusters at the end of files. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@cybrspc.mn.org PGP public key available by mail echo /get /pub/pubkey.asc | mail file-request@cybrspc.mn.org These are, of course, my opinions (and my machines) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLtgVERvikii9febJAQFiFAP8C4USO9iO0b/zL6KWiS5KXtjHFxjEDF3j RBxhAtlV1SWtsp37dOQ7Dsv7Z+vqBjry47cYX/Hr+ZCCwwwxnne4BvMTiEdoyDp8 cebh761Aoj4Un2HgYp4SzwwHN0/TuIlP458gFBgRFR06F4pj+fHaMPWaousB2jlO izfVzEtwT4w= =ae7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sat, 26 Nov 1994, Don Melvin wrote:
I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers. Both for MS-dos.
First, a good secure delete program. These I know exists, which are good?
Norton has a decent wipefile. I don't know if it exists with the current distribution, but with 4.5(which I have) it has it.
Second, I don't know if this exists. I've never heard of one but it should! I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused sectors. It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after the end of a file.
PCTools Compress for PCTools 7.0 would do this, if you specified the option. AGain an old version, I don't know anything about the current versions. Ben.
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