Need program pointers

Hey all!

I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers.
Both for MS-dos.

First, a good secure delete program.  These I know exists, which are good?

Second, I don't know if this exists.  I've never heard of one but it should!
I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused
sectors.  It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after
the end of a file.

Suggestions?

	Thanks, Don
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Don Melvin                  storm@ssnet.com                finger for PGP key.

On Sat, 26 Nov 1994, Don Melvin wrote:
> I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers.
> Both for MS-dos.
> 
> First, a good secure delete program.  These I know exists, which are good?

Norton has a decent wipefile. I don't know if it exists with the current
distribution, but with 4.5(which I have) it has it.

> Second, I don't know if this exists.  I've never heard of one but it should!
> I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused
> sectors.  It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after
> the end of a file.

PCTools Compress for PCTools 7.0 would do this, if you specified the
option.  AGain an old version, I don't know anything about the current
versions.

Ben.

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In list.cypherpunks, storm@marlin.ssnet.com writes:

> 
> Hey all!
> 
> I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers.
> Both for MS-dos.
> 
> First, a good secure delete program.  These I know exists, which are good?

I've had good experience with Norton Wipefile.

> Second, I don't know if this exists.  I've never heard of one but it should!
> I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused
> sectors.  It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after
> the end of a file.

Norton Wipedisk (in the same utils collection with Wipefile) will do
this, including wiping the trailing bytes from unfilled clusters at the
end of files.
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