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June 1st, 2004, 01:10 PM
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| Formating Hard Drive - Military Style
I'm selling a computer on ebay without an OS and I want to wipe the hard drive completely, military style.
Is there a program I can put on a floppy and boot from it and and wipe the hard drive completely? | 
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June 1st, 2004, 01:13 PM
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June 1st, 2004, 01:15 PM
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Why don't you must use the MFR's util and write 0's to it about 5 or 6 times?
I don't think there are any FREE utils for what you wanna do. Your talking about DoD Standards I'm sure.
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June 1st, 2004, 01:19 PM
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Anyways... If its Windows XP, and MSDos and such and such... You can download and create a windows 98, or 95 Boot Disk...
Make sure your Floppy is booting on startup...
Run that, then Prompt will come.
I Believe the command is.
A:\Format C:
or
A:\Format-C
Something like that.
Lol am i even helping???
If not XP, do same thing, but no Bootup disk, just get into MS-Dos | |
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June 1st, 2004, 01:22 PM
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June 1st, 2004, 01:22 PM
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robexe, have you tried to format a drive from an MS-DOS Prompt? You should try it sometime and see what happens.  | |
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June 1st, 2004, 01:23 PM
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Is that FREE GZ3? You ever use it? If so, I'm on it too. | |
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June 1st, 2004, 01:25 PM
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Rick, it says it cost.
but i downloaded it, installed it and it says i can make a floppy.
give me a sec, let me try it out | |
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June 1st, 2004, 01:27 PM
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| BC Wipe Quote: |
1. BCWipe v.3 allows you to wipe data using predefined DoD 5200.28-STD and Peter Gutmann wiping schemes, and now includes the Wiping Scheme Editor utility to view and edit the number of wiping passes as well as binary patterns used in every pass. Now you can customize the entire wiping process on your computer.
| Doesn't appear to be free anymore but it does have a fully functional eval.
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June 1st, 2004, 01:30 PM
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doesnt the government have tools to recover information even if a person wipes a drive 11 times? | |
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