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Re: wipe drive in DOS

From Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject Re: wipe drive in DOS
Date 2011-02-06 13:09 -0500
Organization University of Waterloo
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Jeff@nospam.invalid <Jeff@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>I know real wipe tools overwrite several times and this only does it 
>once, but it may be good enough if I follow it by using Fdisk to delete 
>the partition.

These days real government-approved wiping tools just do a single pass.
After that it's impossible to recover data from it.

					Ross Ridge

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Re: wipe drive in DOS Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-02-06 13:09 -0500

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