On 2006-06-06 Robertson, Seth (JSC-IM) wrote: > Here's a brief history of what I tried and how each solution hasn't fit > my requirements. I considered the Forensics Acquisition Utilties wipe > but it's a one-pass wipe intended only for full sanitization but not > data destruction. From what I can tell, Berke Durak's wipe > (http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/) is exactly what I would want but it > won't run under Windows. I also tried running Durak's wipe from a > bootable Helix CD but Helix mounts the drives read-only by default, not > letting you use the tool. I installed a free Windows tool with a GUI > called Erarser, but it made registry changes and required a reboot. > > There appear to be several good commercial solutions, but I'm looking > for something free. I'm looking for something (that is hopefully as > simple as a command-line tool) that I can place on a CD to perform a > Gutmann wipe of specific files on a hard drive in a computer, without > installing anything on that target computer. Preferably this could be > done without requiring to boot from the CD (for the sake of saving time) > because I trust the binaries on the target system.
SDelete [1] from Sysinternals should do what you want. [1] http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/SDelete.html Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
