April 1, 200917 yr Came upon this article ...supposedly a whole bunch of urban legend is laid to rest.... http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/...ettled-at-last/Jake
April 1, 200917 yr Came upon this article ...supposedly a whole bunch of urban legend is laid to rest.... http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/...ettled-at-last/JakeYep, .JFYI:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=125900jaclaz
April 1, 200917 yr how legends are kept alive:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=808324
April 1, 200917 yr Although the link provided by jaclaz already points to it indirectly, I think a direct link to The Great Zero Challenge is well warranted here.
April 2, 200917 yr Author On the same subject, but from a different chapter......Univ of Calif @ San Diego did some interesting work on the Secure Erase function built in to most Hard drives and provide a utilty to access it....http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtmlJake
April 2, 200917 yr Univ of Calif @ San Diego did some interesting work on the Secure Erase function built in to most Hard drives and provide a utilty to access it....Security concerns are probably not called for, they were open about it and it sounds like a lot of intellectual effort went into this program:"Our sponsor, the National Security Agency, has ended their support of our program... "http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/HDDEraseReadMe.txt
April 2, 200917 yr On the same subject, but from a different chapter......Univ of Calif @ San Diego did some interesting work on the Secure Erase function built in to most Hard drives and provide a utilty to access it....http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtmlJakeReally? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...25900&st=11(same thread posted before, this time pointing directly to post #12 )jaclaz
April 2, 200917 yr Author On the same subject, but from a different chapter......Univ of Calif @ San Diego did some interesting work on the Secure Erase function built in to most Hard drives and provide a utilty to access it....http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtmlJakeReally? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...25900&st=11(same thread posted before, this time pointing directly to post #12 )jaclazLOL ...what can I say....somehow, being a dyed in the wool 98se user, it never occurs to me to look in a Vista forum for topics of interest (but that's just me).....I'm just always interested hearing about experiences of other 98se/ME users.....I fix computers for a hobby, and it's amazing how many hand - me - downs get passed around with hard drives loaded with garbage. But anyway, thanks for the link.....Jake
April 3, 200917 yr I fix computers for a hobby, and it's amazing how many hand - me - downs get passed around with hard drives loaded with garbage.Yep , that is the other urban myth, or, if you prefer, total and utter lack of understanding of how a Hard disk partitioning/formatting works.MOST people think that a good ol' FORMAT will delete anything on the HD for good. I guess that for years most people have gone from one excess (FORMAT) to the other (35 "voodo" passes or DoD standards), and I am afraid this wioll continue for many years to come. jaclaz
August 18, 200917 yr Just for the record, and for future memory, the VISTA (and possibly Windows 7) "formatting strategy" has been profoundly changed:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=135781http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961/en-usThe format command behavior has changed in Windows Vista. By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed. In Windows XP and in earlier versions of the Windows operating system, the format command does not write zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed.As often happens the info is still a bit misleading:writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed.should be read as:writes zeros to the whole selected partition/volume/drive letter when a full format is performed. jaclaz
August 22, 200917 yr Author Just for the record, and for future memory, the VISTA (and possibly Windows 7) "formatting strategy" has been profoundly changed:Ok ....MS$ once again decides to write their own standard into their OS'sWhat puzzles me, Hard Drive manufactures came up with their own standard years ago to securely wipe a hard drive and nobody uses it ? Maybe because it was considered a destructive wipe before trashing the hard drive?Bugs me, they do this stuff and then years later, it's like, " oh yeah did we forget to tell you?" Jake
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