Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/30/22:03:06
Hi Robert,
You are correct on both accounts. Read the instructions and look at the
options. You can use it to only wipe out the slack area of files or
completely wipe out files or completely wipe out a disk. Actually you have
two programs on the later versions of Norton's, it used to be just one. Now
you have WIPEDISK and WIPEFILE. I don't remeber which version they divided
it into two commands, check your version and see if you have one or both
commands.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert W Moss" <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:48 PM
Subject: Re:
> Last time I used Norton's Wipe it literally did just that.
> It cleaned off the formatting on the partition on the
> hard drive and on the floppies I used it on.
> Since Norton's Wipe program is the military strength (Times ten)
> data eraser it should be used carefully. I originally thought that
> it only wrote X's in each and every empty data bit position on
> the disk ten times but it may have been having a problem with
> entries in the fat which were supposed to be erased.
> ??? Could this be cause of a problem with EMM386?
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