A commercial product I'd suggest is Norton Utilities 2001 - not expensive, has other interesting things bundled with it, and gives a free space wiping utility that allows you to control the overwrite character, and the number of overwrites. The only catch is that I don't think that it can cope with the Win 2000 varient of NTFS (not sure about NTFS though). It depends if you're planning on leaving anything on the drive (ie the OS etc) or just generating a totally blank drive. Regards Craig Darren Welch wrote: > I am looking to draft a corporate policy requiring all hard drives to be wiped before being decommissioned, sold, donated, etc. > > The wipe utility must be able to make numerous (up to seven) uninterrupted passes and support a wide array of file systems (fat, ntfs, etc). > > Also, the software must support the ability to assign a particular hex character as the wipe character. > > Could anyone recommend some products? I currently use wiper for my forensic investigations and am very happy with that but I want to provide our IT group with several other acceptable options. > > Thanks, D
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