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Gene E. Bloch
Flightless Bird
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:15:45 -0500, R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Char.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. It mostly fits with what I already knew.
>
> Back in the day when 20 MB was a giant HDD and we were still using MS-DOS
> and FAT(12) and Peter Norton really wrote Norton Utilities, especially
> DiskEdit, I spent many tedious hours reading my disks, byte by byte. I was
> amazed at how much "erased" data was still there. Nowadays, I seldom look
> that closely at my disks, but I'm confident that many of my secrets that I
> "deleted" months or even years ago are still there and readable by anyone
> with the right tools (Yes, they are still available and some are built right
> into Win7, as I'm sure you know.) and just a small amount of skill. (Even
> before MS-DOS and hard drives, I did the same things on floppies with
> SuperZap and other utilities for my TRS-80s. Aah...memories! <g> )
>
> RC
That's why I use Eraser, http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser
There are other such programs.
I usually only erase disks or their free space when I am finished with
them, especially if I'm going to give them away.
--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
> Hi, Char.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. It mostly fits with what I already knew.
>
> Back in the day when 20 MB was a giant HDD and we were still using MS-DOS
> and FAT(12) and Peter Norton really wrote Norton Utilities, especially
> DiskEdit, I spent many tedious hours reading my disks, byte by byte. I was
> amazed at how much "erased" data was still there. Nowadays, I seldom look
> that closely at my disks, but I'm confident that many of my secrets that I
> "deleted" months or even years ago are still there and readable by anyone
> with the right tools (Yes, they are still available and some are built right
> into Win7, as I'm sure you know.) and just a small amount of skill. (Even
> before MS-DOS and hard drives, I did the same things on floppies with
> SuperZap and other utilities for my TRS-80s. Aah...memories! <g> )
>
> RC
That's why I use Eraser, http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser
There are other such programs.
I usually only erase disks or their free space when I am finished with
them, especially if I'm going to give them away.
--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)