RE: [MLUG] favorite shredder utility

["Coley, Craig Patrick (UMC-Student)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

when i was working for gateway a few years ago, they kept updated versions of gwscan on their website available for download. i'm asuming they still do. and their version is not hdd specific so it will work on any drive from any company.
craig

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Gene Worth [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
	Sent: Thu 1/2/2003 12:09 PM 
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	Subject: Re: [MLUG] favorite shredder utility
	
	

	It appears that Western Digital has a utility for the same thing:
	http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Fromshop/diags/wddiag.htm
	
	So, I'm going to guess that every hdd manufacturer has a utility on
	their web site that will low level format a drive ... and that will
	write zeros to the drive.
	
	gene
	
	Duane Hargus wrote:
	> 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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