Eraser
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It's getting to the point that we send out GBs of data on HDDs on a very regular basis. What I'm looking for is an application that will properly overwrite and remove all traces of previous data from a drive before we send it out again.
I've seen the topic mentioned many times before but don't remember what the process is called. Any suggestions of a free app that I can use for this?
Ta muchly.
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I've seen the topic mentioned many times before but don't remember what the process is called. Any suggestions of a free app that I can use for this?
Ta muchly.
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<div class='signature'> I'm not addicted to porn, I'm addicted to masturbation. Porn is just an enabler.
<img src='http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/ma ... Threat.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
There are plenty more fish in the sea, get your tackle out and see what bites.
Divers go deeper and stay down for longer.
Eraser
There are many of them. Microsoft give you a couple, this being the first I found:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...ty/SDelete.mspx
That can overwrite all free space using the -z switch, or you can select folfers or files to erase.
There are also products that run from a Linux boot CD if you need to totally wipe everything off a PC which doesn't have Windows on.
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...ty/SDelete.mspx
That can overwrite all free space using the -z switch, or you can select folfers or files to erase.
There are also products that run from a Linux boot CD if you need to totally wipe everything off a PC which doesn't have Windows on.
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Eraser
A prog called eraser.
It delete's, fills and deletes 35 times over whatever you erase. i know to fully get rid of it it takes 90+ but 35 should be enough <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php
You can also run it on current HDD's and just 'erase' unused data, it can speed your pc up or rather HDD seek times.
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It delete's, fills and deletes 35 times over whatever you erase. i know to fully get rid of it it takes 90+ but 35 should be enough <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php
You can also run it on current HDD's and just 'erase' unused data, it can speed your pc up or rather HDD seek times.
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Thanks for the tips. I'm having a play with Eraser now and it looks very easy to use. I think the main thing to consider is to not delete the files you want to erase beforehand as then you will need to do a pass over all of the empty space on the drive. Cheers boss. <!--emo&:rolleyes:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Think I'll move this to the freeware forum and re-title it.
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<div class='signature'> I'm not addicted to porn, I'm addicted to masturbation. Porn is just an enabler.
<img src='http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/ma ... Threat.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
There are plenty more fish in the sea, get your tackle out and see what bites.
Divers go deeper and stay down for longer.
Think I'll move this to the freeware forum and re-title it.
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<div class='signature'> I'm not addicted to porn, I'm addicted to masturbation. Porn is just an enabler.
<img src='http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/ma ... Threat.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
There are plenty more fish in the sea, get your tackle out and see what bites.
Divers go deeper and stay down for longer.