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03-31-2006, 03:51 PM
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Yes, a full zero-fill does take a long time, depending on the drive and computer speed. On some computers I've dealt with, wiping a drive three times takes over eight hours.
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03-31-2006, 03:55 PM
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u gota do it three times
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03-31-2006, 04:01 PM
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It depends on what level of security you want. Evern after you zero-fill a drive once, a sophisticated user with the necessary money and time can probably get the data off of your drive. Where I work, our policy is to wipe it three times, which is Department of Defense standard DoD.5200.22-M. Personally, when I have disposed of drives, I have overwritten my drives using Eraser 15 times with random data. Nobody is going to spend the tens of thousands of dollars necessary to get information off of my drive; it's not worth it.
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03-31-2006, 04:11 PM
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unless someone wants to steal my history paper s from freshmen year in college i only need to do it once but all my class pappers are more important than the documents for the defense departments
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03-31-2006, 04:20 PM
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hey i think i screwed up cause i zero filled and i gues i dont have a xp cd but i have an upgrade cd this could suck
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03-31-2006, 04:21 PM
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I thought you were giving it away? Are you going to be using this computer?
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03-31-2006, 04:26 PM
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well i was gona put a os on it for him
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03-31-2006, 04:28 PM
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Do you have the XP Upgrade CD? If you do, and you have an older Window install CD, you can still use the upgrade CD to install Windows.
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03-31-2006, 04:30 PM
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is there anything i can do linux is come to mind he is just worried about takin word documents from work and bringin em to linux
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03-31-2006, 04:30 PM
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Yes, Linux will work too. OpenOffice can open Word documents, as long as they aren't too full of special formatting junk like inline tables.
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03-31-2006, 04:35 PM
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hey i think i got xp working actualy i dont wana talk to fast its still workin but while i wait what do u thik is the best form of linux
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03-31-2006, 05:29 PM
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There are way too many out there to say that one is best. I like Mandrake. Lots of people like Ubuntu. Knoppix is nice in that you just run it from CD, so there's no need to install anything. Just check them out and ask around.
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