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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:48:06 -0500
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Robert,

I believe it can be adjusted to write a specified number of times.  I
usually only do it to free space.  I was using it successfully with
PCDOS until I changed by boot SCSI adapter.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA


Robert W Moss wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS 'Chocolate is a vitamin'