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On Thursday 02 January 2003 09:37, Rick Buford wrote:
> Does anyone have a favorite boot-on-cd shredder utility? We have several
> machines that will be going back to Dell, and there is some concern that
> we need to remove our information from them before they go back. Does
> something like Knoppix have a utility that will rewrite the hard drives?
>
> Rick
On the gateway cd's, they have a utility for writing zeroes to the hard disk;
I think ist is something like gwscan.exe and the cd is bootable. just an fyi
since we seem to need the utility to get windows to re-install properly
sometimes (an fdisk and reformat doesn't clean the windows virus from a pc).
Duane Hargus
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