Norton Utilities 3.2 runs on System 7. The WipeInfo program can do a
'Government-level' wipe.
Jack
On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:05 PM, John Niven wrote:
Scott,
this is an interesting question. I personally doubt that anybody would
bother to even look for something of value on the HD of a school
computer, but... I have been advised that I should worry about
disposing of any computer I ever did a credit card transaction with.
I notice that under OS 10.3.9 the disk utility 10.4.4 has an option,
when erasing a disk, of overwriting the disk 8 times with random data.
I tried it and it takes forever. But it would be effective. I think
selecting to "zero all data" was also an option on HD setup. While not
as effective as the 8 way write, this should prevent any simple file
recovery software.
John
On Jul 6, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Scott Baret wrote:
What would be a way to completely erase these drives
so some undelete utility wouldn't pick up anything
from our school?
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