*Darren: *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 Most common tool is WIPEINFO from NortonUtilities, but the GREAT disadvantage is its speed (probably all SW tools). It is very slow process. My private good experience is with HW disk copier, which have adjustable wipe functions built in. It is system independent and very quick and safety. It erase ALL info from disk on low-level so its not possible to identify no files and no filesystems. More, the operation is very simple and you do not need high qualified personnel. ____________________________________ Marian Svetlik Principal Consultant Risk Analysis Consultants Ltd. Narodni 9, 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic Tel.: +420 2 220 75 352 Fax: +420 2 242 28 273 mail: svetlikat_private http://www.rac.cz
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