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Re: wipe drive in DOS

Started byRoss Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
First post2011-02-06 13:09 -0500
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  Re: wipe drive in DOS Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-02-06 13:09 -0500

#1010 — Re: wipe drive in DOS

FromRoss Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date2011-02-06 13:09 -0500
SubjectRe: wipe drive in DOS
Message-ID<iimo4h$2km$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>
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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