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Posted by Miha Pihler [MVP] on November 1, 2005, 10:44 am
Please log in for more thread options After you format the drives -- run the utilities that I mentioned in my
previous post on the volumes. These utilities write different random data on
each pass to the hard drive and make information that was there before
practically unrecoverable...
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Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
> Thanks Miha
>
> But after the delete, i run the runtime utility (data recovery utility) it
> shows the folder and files after the delete the folders. (we have large
> volumes like from C to Z and all are more then 40GB drives. and having
> more folders(some thousands). its running on windows 2000 Server with NTFS
> format. is it possible to format the drive (unrecoverable mode?) any tools
> available for formating the Drive?
>
> Thanks
> Gopi
>
>> There are few tools that you can use ...
>>
>> First one comes with e.g. Windows 2003 and Windows XP. It is called
>> "cipher"
>>
>> Go to command prompt and enter
>>
>> cipher /w:d:\
>>
>> this one will removes data from available unused disk space on the entire
>> d: drive. If you want to remove data from available unused space on c:
>> drive enter
>>
>> cipher /w:d:\
>>
>> Here is another tool from SysInternals that will do the same...
>>
>> SDelete
>> http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/SDelete.html
>>
>> Note: these tools will take some time to perform the removal of
>> information from the hard drives -- specially on large volumes...
>>
>> --
>> Mike
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> We have lot of drive in leased servers, we like to delete permanently
>>> (unrecoverable mode) our data before return to the company.
>>>
>>> All are NTFS format drive. is there any tools available?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Gopi
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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