delete files w/zeros

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Paul

Looking for, but all that I find say permanently delete files, but no
mention of writing zeros. Need freeware.

is there, outthere?

P
 
I think he wants to overwrite deleted files with zeros.

Just for my 2 cents goin maybe :)
Larry

On 4 Feb 2006 20:38:17 -0800, "Uncle Grumpy"

|What planet are you from and what language are you using?

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.
 
Paul said:
Looking for, but all that I find say permanently delete files, but no
mention of writing zeros. Need freeware.

is there, outthere?

P
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Why not look for a program that overwrites files with a better pattern than
zeros. Google will find many that use other patterns making it much harder
to recover data.

Kerry
 
Kerry Brown said:
Why not look for a program that overwrites files with a better pattern
than zeros. Google will find many that use other patterns making it much
harder to recover data.

Kerry
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I did not know about that. Give me search criteria please.
 
I would suggest the PGP wipe utility (www.pgp.com). PGP is free, and
you can also use it for what it's really made for -- encrypting files,
email, whatever.
From the PGP user's guide:
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"Select the number of passes that you want PGP to perform. The
recommended guidelines are:
· 3 passes for personal use
· 10 passes for commercial use
· 18 passes for military use
· 26 passes for maximum security
Commercial data recovery companies have been known to recover data that
has been overwritten up to nine times. PGP uses highly sophisticated
patterns during each wipe to ensure that your sensitive data cannot be
recovered."

HTH,
PlainDave
 
I would suggest the PGP wipe utility (www.pgp.com). PGP is free, and
you can also use it for what it's really made for -- encrypting files,
email, whatever.
From the PGP user's guide:
Click to expand...
"Select the number of passes that you want PGP to perform. The
recommended guidelines are:
· 3 passes for personal use
· 10 passes for commercial use
· 18 passes for military use
· 26 passes for maximum security
Commercial data recovery companies have been known to recover data that
has been overwritten up to nine times. PGP uses highly sophisticated
patterns during each wipe to ensure that your sensitive data cannot be
recovered."

HTH,
PlainDave
 
pgp = $$$

I would suggest the PGP wipe utility (www.pgp.com). PGP is free, and
you can also use it for what it's really made for -- encrypting files,
email, whatever.
From the PGP user's guide:
Click to expand...
"Select the number of passes that you want PGP to perform. The
recommended guidelines are:
· 3 passes for personal use
· 10 passes for commercial use
· 18 passes for military use
· 26 passes for maximum security
Commercial data recovery companies have been known to recover data that
has been overwritten up to nine times. PGP uses highly sophisticated
patterns during each wipe to ensure that your sensitive data cannot be
recovered."

HTH,
PlainDave
 
I did "secure delete" google before and went thru 3 pages looking, and
nothing said it wrote zeros or something else. Many said secure deletion,
but none said it in a way to give me the secure feeling that I am looking
for, they were all kinda wishy washy.

p
 
Paul said:
s delete is not for xp, and those guys do not respond to Emails.

p
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Of course it's for XP.

- - - - - - - - begin screen capture WinXP MCE SP2 - - - - - - - -
c:\cmd>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

c:\cmd>sdelete /?

SDelete - Secure Delete v1.4
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

usage: sdelete [-p passes] [-s] [-q] <file or directory>
sdelete [-p passes] -z [drive letter]
-p passes Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1)
-s Recurse subdirectories
-q Don't print errors (Quiet)
-z Clean free space
- - - - - - - - end screen capture WinXP MCE SP2 - - - - - - - -
 
Looking for, but all that I find say permanently delete files, but no
mention of writing zeros. Need freeware.
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is there, outthere?
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Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

"Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you
to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by
overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works
with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU
General Public License.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper
"Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and
they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the
hard drive.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial
Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and
overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own
overwriting methods."
 
Read their site, it is not for xp. Most of their other apps list xp, this
app does not list xp. I emailed them asking if it could be used for xp, and
if not when they might have an xp compatible ver, they never responded. One
week later I Emailed them again, and that was two days ago and so far no
response.

P

Phil Robyn said:
Paul said:
s delete is not for xp, and those guys do not respond to Emails.

p
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Of course it's for XP.

- - - - - - - - begin screen capture WinXP MCE SP2 - - - - - - - -
c:\cmd>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

c:\cmd>sdelete /?

SDelete - Secure Delete v1.4
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

usage: sdelete [-p passes] [-s] [-q] <file or directory>
sdelete [-p passes] -z [drive letter]
-p passes Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1)
-s Recurse subdirectories
-q Don't print errors (Quiet)
-z Clean free space
- - - - - - - - end screen capture WinXP MCE SP2 - - - - - - - -
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