Fress space wiper

Anyone know of a free wiper for Vista 32-bit? I used to use something called
"Eraser" in XP but can't seem to find it now!

Mark

Windows has a command called cipher that can be used to wipe free space.
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/how-t...letely-erased/

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"Mark" <me@home> wrote in message
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> Anyone know of a free wiper for Vista 32-bit? I used to use something
> called "Eraser" in XP but can't seem to find it now!
>
> Mark

Mark wrote:
> Anyone know of a free wiper for Vista 32-bit? I used to use something
> called "Eraser" in XP but can't seem to find it now!

Open a command prompt and type:

cipher /w:C:\

This will wipe free space on your C drive.

Bear in mind that the only truely reliable way to destroy data on a hard
drive is to utterly destroy the hard drive surface.

Alun Harford

PGP Desktop protection has an eraser component ... very nice.

"Mark" <me@home> wrote in message
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> Anyone know of a free wiper for Vista 32-bit? I used to use something
> called "Eraser" in XP but can't seem to find it now!
>
> Mark

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

I have used this with Vista Ultimate with no apparent damage...


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"Harold Browning" <haroldbrowning@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks,

Mark

In article <u3OJsOV6HHA.600@xxxxxx>,
"Harold Browning" <haroldbrowning@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Harold, I am a different Mark. (Mark Conrad)

The most recent version of Eraser worked great for me also, on Vista
Ultimate.

I only use Eraser for wiping the free space on my Vista partition, in
order to produce a smaller sized compressed backup file of Vista.


They do not really have easy-to-learn instructions for doing this, but I
managed to figure it out.


Eraser user has to set up his own "wipe" pattern, in my case the pattern
was all hex zeros.


Only thing I could not figure out was why they had 3 bytes to set, to
all zeros.

Oh well, at least I did not zap Vista when I wiped free space, but sure
wish I knew more about why they have 3 bytes, only the first byte being
set to all hex zeros by default.

A user is required to select bytes number 2 and 3 if he wants to use
them, which is what I did.

(I set bytes 2 and 3 to all zeros also)

Confusing about those settings, no details in the Help files.

Mark Conrad-