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04-16-2004, 08:13 PM
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Zero Write Utility
I'm looking for a program (freeware is good, but I'll pay for something I value) that will do a zero-write (US Gov't quality) to the un-used portion of an otherwise in-use hard drive. I don't want something that will wipe my entire drive, I just want to wipe the un-used portions of the drive. Basically like Norton's file shredder, but rather than drag-n-drop files, I want it to zero-write the un-used portions of my hard drives.
TIA. Dave.
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04-16-2004, 08:43 PM
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kill disk is said to be good, free download it last night, but have not tried it yet
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04-16-2004, 11:26 PM
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I've already looked at programs like Kill Disk. Although they are great programs, they do not allow me to just overwrite un-used portions of a disk - Kill Disk (and many others) overwrite the entire disk.
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04-17-2004, 12:22 AM
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04-17-2004, 12:23 AM
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Only way I know of is to create a new partition of the unused area, zero fill it with a drive manufacturers utility, then merge the partitons. Could be done with Partition Magic and hdd utility.
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04-17-2004, 12:49 AM
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why would you want to zero-fill one partition ?
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04-17-2004, 05:53 AM
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I think low level format tools only work on the whole hard drive.
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04-20-2004, 05:32 PM
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Thanks to stylin19 and whargoul - both programs are what I'm looking for.
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