[plug] sanitise your hard drive before passing it on ...

[Harry McNally]

On 16 Jan 2003 21:26:38 +0800 William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-980824.html

The comments posted reveal an amazing lack of knowledge; particularly
about what Windows does within delete, format, fdisk.

Someone (uses Linux = has brain) mentioned dd as posted previously on PLUG
and another pointed to BCWipe:

http://linux.tucows.com/internet/preview/54369.html

also a Linux utility.

Sorry if I'm spoiling your data recovery fun, Bill :-)

All the best
Harry

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