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hard drive cleaner?
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i use a shredder now to delete sensitive files, but i've deleted things things in the past without doing anything special. is there a program that can write over any empty space on my disk and permanently erase anything i've already erased like a shredder would do?

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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low level format? It writes the entire space of the hard drive with just 0 or 1. Find out the manufacturer and they should have a program that will do it. I'm sure there are other programs out there you can find also.


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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: daussaulit]
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i don't want to delete everything. i just want to make it so that everything i've already deleted in the past is really gone.

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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Norton has a Wipe Info. There's also Eraser, which is great and will erase and re-write over your free space as many times as you want it to It also adds an "erase" option to the right click windows explorer menu. It also has a scheduler so it will wipe free space by itself.


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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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eraser?

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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Eraser


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: daussaulit]
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You can't do a low-level format on today's drives. They are done once and once only: at the factory.

As for deleting files: I think the industry standard is to write 1's then 0's over the area of the drive a total of 30 times in a row. That should get rid of any remaining magnetics.

PGP has a utility in it that allows you to do this.


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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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I've used BCWipe for some time now, and it's a pretty good erasing utility. It meets all U.S. DOD standards. It's a shell extension and what it does is basically write random 0's and 1's over the file to be 'shredded' seven tmes, assuring its destruction. It can also do the same with the empty space on a HD.

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: trendal]
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trendal said:
You can't do a low-level format on today's drives. They are done once and once only: at the factory.

As for deleting files: I think the industry standard is to write 1's then 0's over the area of the drive a total of 30 times in a row. That should get rid of any remaining magnetics.

PGP has a utility in it that allows you to do this.


30 is extreme
Law enforement can only recover some stuff after 5-7 writes. 8 is pretty much gaurnteed safe number


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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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partition magic works great.

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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Ohhhhh, secureclean 4. Its a good program, it'll write over your free space and overwrite files up to 12 times. It claims that even with just one overwrite, its impossible to recover it. You can also scan your drive for recoverable items.


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Beers that I have had.  Total listed:2,302

Make your own beer!
Homebrewing(Extract with Specialty Grains)
Homebrewing(All-Grain)
Home wine making
Make your own Wine!

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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CyberScrub will wipe the "empty space" of your HD.

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Re: hard drive cleaner? [Re: ]
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thanks everyone.

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