Erasing files

[wobbegong]

I need to hand a couple of PCs (one XP, one Linux) to another department. I really don't trust one the techies in there, and I want to render certain deleted files on the hard drives irrecoverable (no, it's not p0rn, it's financial stuff).

Can anyone recommend a deletion utility that runs from a bootable floppy or CD, that will identify deleted files on the disk and offer the option to comletely erase user specified files (rather than, say, all free space, or the entire disk)?

Thanks in advance.

[Dark Black]

I use PGP Wipe. Works for me - it is installed locally though, never tried to run off a cd.

[angusglover]

I have a WIN PE CD that I use for booting into. It is like Windows XP on a CD and it has a number of applications on, one of which is BCWipe. This lets me boot from CD, go into an XP interface and run a series of cool apps, such as ghost, virus scanners, connect to network etc. It even lets me copy and paste files to and from an NTFS drive while booted from CD.

[HankWangford]

I use eraser

[wobbegong]

Thanks Gents, I'll look into those.

[Churchill]

delete the files then defrag the disk.

[Clippy]

You could try Active Kill Disk - http://www.killdisk.com/

It conforms to US DoD standards.

[Ardesco]

You could try Active Kill Disk - http://www.killdisk.com/

It conforms to US DoD standards.

You mean it takes a copy of all the data and uploads it to a DoD server so that they can check it to make sure you're not an evil terrorist trying to destroy the american way of life!!!

[Clippy]

[Board Game Geek]

Alternatively, sack or execute the techie first before he snoops on the data.

Bish bosh job done !

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