WIPE allows you to "write" data to the deleted areas, so as to make it difficult to recover. I believe WIPE lets you set how many times to loop the writing sequence. Government wipe I believe is 7 times. ---Troth ----- Original Message ----- From: DH (Rick) Holmes To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:15 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: CD-R versus CD-RW Is 'wipe' a third option and provided by Norton (Utilities)? DON WHITNEY wrote: >A wipe overwrites everything in 1 and 0's and renders info unrecoverable. >This is usually done several times to ensure the =0D >info cannot be recovered. Norton Utilities offers this option.=0D >=0D >Don > > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk