Re: Securely Wiping a Hard Drive

From: Mike Zanker (M.Zankerat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 04:07:16 PDT

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    At 18:21 01/10/2001, Henderson, Pete wrote:
    
    > I am looking for a utility that I could use to wipe hard drives using a boot
    > disk.  To completely overwrite the entire drive, I would need to boot to a
    > different device.  Correct?  If I slave a hard drive and boot to the master,
    > doesn't Windows still create a recycle bin on the slave?  Would mounting it
    > with Linux be a better solution?  Which Linux program works best?
    
    East Technologies do a number of utilities that claim to perform secure
    formats (Windows based).
    
    http://www.east-tec.com/
    
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