Be careful doing a low-level format. If you are doing it on an
IDE drive, you will end up formatting it to a 32MB drive! I know
because I did it in my early years of computing. SCSI drives should be
fine though.
My favorite solution is using a large magnet to realign the
bits. =o) Just kidding.
Virtually,
MarC Eiler
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Dog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Unclassified Disk "Sanitizers"
>"Sadler, Connie J" wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have recommendations for freeware or shareware that
>effectively
>> erases disks for unclassified but sensitive information? This would
be
>used
>> for all machines "retired" to school programs, etc. We need one for
>Windows
>> and one for UNIX, if one tool can't clean both types of disks.
Anybody
>have
>> experience with this?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Connie
Since you said unclassified but sensitive I take you mean that
it is just information you would rather other people not see
and not some deathly important information.
All you should have to do is low level format the drive.
Heck, if you want, do it twice. This should be way way *more*
than enough for your purposes. You can get a low level formating
utility, in most cases, for free from the manufacturer's web site.
If you just low level format it, or twice, it would take a *HUGE*
amount of work to retrieve your data.
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