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Best File Shredder Software?
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 3:13 pm
by wvjohn
we will probably be replacing whole pcs or at least a fair number of hdd's at work and will be donating/selling the old stuff - i will really need to scrub the drives b/c we keep confidential info on them - anyone got any recommendations for cleaning programs?
TIA
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 5:59 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Well I would think if you used the low-level option on the manufacturer's utility to write zeros to all sectors that should pretty much eliminate the data.
If you want to be paranoid, do it 3 times to each drive (I've heard that some disk recovery utilities can recover it if you do it only once).
Someone else around here mentioned this in another post - hopefully he'll chime in.
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 8:05 pm
by wvjohn
these are all HP office machines with different brands of HD's - i want something that is fire and forget - i'll check around some of the software sites - i know a lot of the "internet privacy" programs have this kind of feature but i don't need all that other stuff
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 8:19 pm
by d_b
Might
this be what you are looking for? I have no idea how good it is but it's free.
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:14 pm
by Busby
A magnet works
I believe that Partition Magic has a feature to shred the data. Powerquest probably has an utility to use to do that type of stuff.
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:32 pm
by PreDatoR
I've used a program called Wipe It.... This was like 3 years ago though. I did its job... We had to test it and couldn't pull up any data with just running it once.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:48 am
by two slow
Toward the bottom of
this page is something called wipe out. I haven't used it but everything I have from this site has been excellent.
WIPE OUT : as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data from the Hard Drive.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 5:19 am
by wvjohn
thanks all - i've downloaded some of the recommended ones as well as the commercial product from mcaffee - i'll report back after i've had a chance to check them out
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 9:14 pm
by matt719
You might try Eraser. It rigths over the drive 3 times... no way anything will be ther for long... It does take a while seeing as it write over 3 times, but it's great for docs. you can get it here:
http://download.com.com/3000-2092-85049 ... ag=lst-0-1