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Wipe free space
In preparation of donating an old computer, I'm interested in permanently
wiping free disk space. Any recommendations for a good free utility that not only shreds files but also wipes available free space. Thanks in advance and Happy Easter. Dan |
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Dan, try Googling. The first hit I came across was Eraser at :-
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php Never tried it so don't know how effective it is - but it is FREE Mart "Dapper Dan" wrote in message ... In preparation of donating an old computer, I'm interested in permanently wiping free disk space. Any recommendations for a good free utility that not only shreds files but also wipes available free space. Thanks in advance and Happy Easter. Dan |
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Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before downloading and
using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help. Dan "Mart" wrote in message ... Dan, try Googling. The first hit I came across was Eraser at :- http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php Never tried it so don't know how effective it is - but it is FREE Mart "Dapper Dan" wrote in message ... In preparation of donating an old computer, I'm interested in permanently wiping free disk space. Any recommendations for a good free utility that not only shreds files but also wipes available free space. Thanks in advance and Happy Easter. Dan |
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Dapper Dan wrote:
Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before downloading and using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help. Sorry I can't help Dan other than to suggest using Google which you have already done. I've used BING to write zeros to entire drives but have never attempted to do this to unused parts of a partition where I want to retain the files. Defragging the drive doesn't really seem to help either as I have found in the past that I have been able to recover deleted files where the drive has subsequently been defragged albeit that was on a system where the file system was NTFS. -- Mike Maltby |
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Dan,
I've used Eraser 5.82 with no problems. There were problems with versions 5.8 and 5.81, but both the SourceForge and Heidi web sites have long pulled those versions. Tom Dapper Dan wrote: Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before downloading and using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help. Dan "Mart" wrote in message ... Dan, try Googling. The first hit I came across was Eraser at :- http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php Never tried it so don't know how effective it is - but it is FREE Mart "Dapper Dan" wrote in message ... In preparation of donating an old computer, I'm interested in permanently wiping free disk space. Any recommendations for a good free utility that not only shreds files but also wipes available free space. Thanks in advance and Happy Easter. Dan |
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Thanks Mike.
I think I'll experiment this weekend. It's not like I have much to lose given it no longer gets used. If something stupid happens, I can always repartition; it's just that because it's an OEM, I have no disks to reload. Regards Dan "Mike M" wrote in message ... Dapper Dan wrote: Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before downloading and using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help. Sorry I can't help Dan other than to suggest using Google which you have already done. I've used BING to write zeros to entire drives but have never attempted to do this to unused parts of a partition where I want to retain the files. Defragging the drive doesn't really seem to help either as I have found in the past that I have been able to recover deleted files where the drive has subsequently been defragged albeit that was on a system where the file system was NTFS. -- Mike Maltby |
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Dapper Dan wrote:
In preparation of donating an old computer, I'm interested in permanently wiping free disk space. Any recommendations for a good free utility that not only shreds files but also wipes available free space. Thanks in advance and Happy Easter. Dan You can use the floppy download from your hard drive manufacturer's web site to write zeros on the drive. It takes hours. Alias |
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Thanks for your feedback, Tom. I'll get on to this tomorrow and will come
back with a brief summary of my experience. Dan "TomV" wrote in message ... Dan, I've used Eraser 5.82 with no problems. There were problems with versions 5.8 and 5.81, but both the SourceForge and Heidi web sites have long pulled those versions. Tom Dapper Dan wrote: Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before downloading and using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help. Dan "Mart" wrote in message ... Dan, try Googling. The first hit I came across was Eraser at :- http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php Never tried it so don't know how effective it is - but it is FREE Mart "Dapper Dan" wrote in message ... In preparation of donating an old computer, I'm interested in permanently wiping free disk space. Any recommendations for a good free utility that not only shreds files but also wipes available free space. Thanks in advance and Happy Easter. Dan |
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Dan,
There seem to be a spate of coincidences here lately! One is that I found the cover disc CD I originally got DestroyIt!2000 from, back in 2000/1. Besides having long-since realised there's no need to overwrite freespace - except perhaps in the situation you describe - I found that it was one of those progs that stopped SR working. I remember reporting it to Mike - probably in systemtools. How good it is, I don't know. I thought it was good at the time but that's almost meaningless, I knew so little then! Presumably it does work since it stopped SR working because basically it writes a series of files to the HDD, which are deleted on reboot. Only in doing so free space goes below the critical 300MB required for SR, which then flushes and turns itself off. For Win ME, for a user wishing to use SR, DestroyIt!2000 was a prog written for Win 98 that dated rapidly! Of course, if one is getting rid of ME it doesn't matter if one flushes the RPs. Whether you could find DestroyIt!2000 now, I don't know. Whether it's small enough to e-mail to you via dial-up, I don't know. The CD is outdoors, in the 'trash', albeit in a bag that contains no organic waste (and which I've already been down once to retrieve an old copy of another prog!). Shane Dapper Dan wrote: Thanks Mike. I think I'll experiment this weekend. It's not like I have much to lose given it no longer gets used. If something stupid happens, I can always repartition; it's just that because it's an OEM, I have no disks to reload. Regards Dan "Mike M" wrote in message ... Dapper Dan wrote: Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before downloading and using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help. Sorry I can't help Dan other than to suggest using Google which you have already done. I've used BING to write zeros to entire drives but have never attempted to do this to unused parts of a partition where I want to retain the files. Defragging the drive doesn't really seem to help either as I have found in the past that I have been able to recover deleted files where the drive has subsequently been defragged albeit that was on a system where the file system was NTFS. -- Mike Maltby |
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