Why not use an electronic magnet? It's easy and inexpensive in time and license costs. Also, don't forget about those floppies and other removable media such as CDROMs (a lot of valuable info on these disks now), Zip and Jazz type drives, and of course tapes in your policy for decommissioning. Ron Ogle Thomson multimedia Rennes France > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Welch [mailto:WELCHDat_private] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:45 PM > To: forensicsat_private > Subject: wipe utilities > > > 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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