Re: completely uninstalling jaws & DriveScrubber
- From: "Michael Capelle" <michaelcapelle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:45:49 -0600
ah ha i see, and i understand, now, when i did try to whipe free space
starting at nine pm last night, when i woke up at about eight am this
morning, it was still going. Is this normal? When I was in my options, I
used the government standard. Also, once I whipe free space, how do I get
it truely gone where no one can recover it?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: completely uninstalling jaws & DriveScrubber
> Hi;
>
> Michael Capelle wrote:
>> ok, so i can choose to whipe the entire hard disk, reboot, and everything
>> will be there?
>
> Erm, no. If you wipe the entire disk area of a hard drive, everything
> will
> be gone. What Sy and myself are talking about, is wiping the free space
> on
> a hard drive. Free space is the area where no files reside, but includes
> areas of the hard drive where files that have been deleted once resided.
> By
> wiping this free space, you will be able to truely remove any confidential
> information whilst leaving the files you haven't deleted in tact.
> Therefore, wiping free space *only*, will allow you to reboot with
> everything working, wiping the *entire* surface of a drive will nuke
> everyting, including your operating system instance and instances of all
> your application software.
>
> Will Pearson
> Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer/VC++)
>
>
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