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At 09:25 AM 09/21/2000, Tim Turay wrote:
>I am looking for utilities that can guarantee me that the hard drive will be
>formatted. So that when you try to use a recover utility you will not be able to find
>anything on the hard drive.
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>So far I have:
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>1. Normal format of C: and D: drives.
>2. Destroyed the partitions and re-created the partitions (different sizes).
>3. Normal format of C: and D: drives.
>4. Used a shareware formatting program that over wrote cluster by cluster.
>5. Re-created the partitions again.
>6. Installed NT on the system.
>7. Installed Windows 2000 on the system.
>8. Installed NT on the system.
>9. Installed NT on the system.
>10. Installed Windows 2000 on the system.
>11. Used PowerQuest's lost and found product (a DOS level utility), found multiple
>directories. Since it was a trial version unable to restore any of them.
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>Any ideas whould be great,
No one has brought this subject up in a few years now. The procedure
you are considering is called a Government Wipe to sanitize a hard drive
based on the US Department of Defense document 5220-22-M, National
Industrial Security Program Operating Manual.
The steps for a Government Wipe are as follows:
1 The data is overwritten with all 0s, and then overwritten by all 1s.
2 The first step is repeated at least seven times.
3 Then a random value, or any other value chosen from 0 to 255, is written.
4 The value written is verified to insure that it was written correctly.
5 Then, the entire process is repeated at least seven times.
We have never kept a utility for this purpose on The NOSPIN Group
web site as it is a rarely requested program. I know that Norton
Utilities by Symantec: http://www.symantec.com includes a program
for this purpose. There are a great many others available on most
shareware sites like ZDNET or PCWorld...
Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group
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