From: Kevin L Prigge <klp@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 08:05:06 PDT
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: PC disk wipe software
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According to rumor, Perry E. Metzger said:
> 
> 
> I thought I'd ask here, since its related to a lot of the stuff people
> have written for the PC platform in these parts. I need to securely
> wipe a bunch of data from an MS-DOS hard drive, so that it can't be
> recovered. Are there any readily available utilities for this? Will
> any of them selectively erase only data that isn't allocated to
> existing files?
> 

PC Tools has a wipe program that will either wipe individual files, or
wipe all unallocated diskspace. It also allows you to choose the level
of wipe (single overwrite, multiple, etc).

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