Re: wipe utilities

From: Stephen Gill (gillsrat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 11:31:49 PDT

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    Since you are in fact wiping the hard drive, shouldn't the file system
    be irrelevant?
    
    -- steve
    
    --- Darren Welch <WELCHDat_private> 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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