wiping drives, was RE: [BC] GATEWAY 4DX2-50V C

[Bill Croghan]

An old DOS trick was to load a couple of big files then do a "copy *.* *.a"
followed by "copy *.* *.b" and so on.  Do this until the drive fills.  Then
do a "delete *.b" "delete d", etc (every other one) until you get rid of
about half of the stuff, repeat the process a couple of times randomly
choosing the delete and re-copy sequences and you'll soon have the whole
drive filled with really useless stuff and it will challenge the best
professional data services to recover it.  Do a "delete *.*" and relax. 

Bill

Bill Croghan CPBE WB?KSW
Chief Engineer, 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD
Lotus Broadcasting
Las Vegas, NV
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>-----Original Message-----
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>bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of WFIFeng at aol.com
>Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:10 PM
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>Subject: Re: [BC] GATEWAY 4DX2-50V C
>
>In a message dated 12/14/2005 5:30:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>seaberg1 at juno.com writes:
>
>> It's against my "computer religion" to smash the hard-drive. I think
>>  reformating the drive will wipe out the stored date.  Any suggestions
>>  from the IT brain trust?
>
>You could put the drive into a running WIN9X box, and *fill* it with MP3
>files until it begs for mercy. Then, delete them, and reformat. That should
>wipe
>out all of the original data sufficiently. As long as you overwrite the old
>data, (not just FORMAT) it becomes impossible even for hackers to get at
>it. Only
>a professional data recovery service would be able to retrieve it. If
>someone
>has thousands of dollars to spend on data recovery, they can try. I
>seriously
>doubt it, though.
>
>Willie...
>
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