DigeratiPrime Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Just a simple zero fill will do Active@ Kill Disk does not work, I run it as admin and tried XP compatibility but it gets an access violation error, not sure yet if this is UAC...Error: Access violation at 0x007748AA (tried to read from 0x0000001C), program terminated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheky Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd334519.aspxI have had success using sdelete to 0 out free space (and previously deleted pointers to items that EFS leaves behind), but they offer switches for the CIPHER command that will do the same.No luck with secure deletion of everything aside from a dod wipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted May 30, 2009 Author Share Posted May 30, 2009 Well I don't want to just erase free space, I wanted to erase the whole disk. Nothing really sensitive on it, just doing an RMA for a Samsung drive making clicking sounds (calibration errors I've heard). I just used the Disk Management snap-in to do a full format, then opened the disk with HxD (freeware) and zeroed out the remaing sectors manually. Thing is I didn't want to use HxD to do the whole disk since it would be a copy/paste nightmare.http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Have you tried DBAN with any success? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 The easy, "poor man's" way?Create on a NTFS partition a sparse file bigger than the overall disk size, with mksparse or similar tool:http://branten.se/nt/http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/Use dsfi of the DSFOK package to copy the file over the physicaldrive:http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/Cannot say if dsfo/dsfi do work on 7, though.Another one to try for 7 compatibility is Roadkil's Disk Wipe:http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=14If you are going, like DBAN would, to a "boot disk" of some kind, my suggestion is to use the "real thing", i.e. Secure Erase:http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtmlit is faster than anything else, as it uses the internal ATA/SATA commands (the work is done within the HD).It is also part of the UBCD, which also includes DBAN:http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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