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| Thread ID: 25181 | 2002-09-28 00:55:00 | Unused disk space | Naraku Kasai (1028) | Press F1 |
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| 83905 | 2002-09-28 00:55:00 | When erasing Unused disk space on the C drive, overwriting using Pseudorandom data, how many times would you suggest I overwrite it? The unused space is about 40gigs, so it'll be very slow. I just wanna know what you guys think is fairly safe without overwriting like 50,000 times. Give me a scale of how safe it is or something, if you feel the need. Cheers, Tony. |
Naraku Kasai (1028) | ||
| 83906 | 2002-09-28 01:12:00 | er, wots the point in erasing something that's not there? | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 83907 | 2002-09-28 01:27:00 | i assume you are selling the pc and don't wont the new owner to recover any deleted files. it depends on how critical the data is. if its just normal stuff only once will do. otherwise i would suggest at least 3. if its extremely important (eg clasified doco's) then give them a new drive. |
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