Dan,


There seem to be a spate of coincidences here lately! One is that I found
the
cover disc CD I originally got DestroyIt!2000 from, back in 2000/1. Besides
having long-since realised there's no need to overwrite freespace -
except perhaps in the situation you describe - I found that it was one of
those progs that stopped SR working. I remember reporting it to Mike -
probably in systemtools.

How good it is, I don't know. I thought it was good at the time but that's
almost meaningless, I knew so little then! Presumably it does work
since it stopped SR working because basically it writes a series of files to
the HDD, which are
deleted on reboot. Only in doing so free space goes below the critical 300MB
required for SR, which then flushes and turns itself off. For Win ME, for a
user wishing to use SR, DestroyIt!2000 was a prog written for Win 98 that
dated rapidly! Of course, if one is getting rid of ME it doesn't matter if
one flushes
the RPs.

Whether you could find DestroyIt!2000 now, I don't know. Whether it's small
enough to e-mail to you via dial-up, I don't know. The CD is outdoors, in
the 'trash', albeit in a bag that contains no organic
waste (and which I've already been down once to retrieve an old copy of
another prog!).

Shane


Dapper Dan wrote:
Thanks Mike.

I think I'll experiment this weekend. It's not like I have much to
lose given it no longer gets used. If something stupid happens, I can
always repartition; it's just that because it's an OEM, I have no
disks to reload.
Regards

Dan


"Mike M" wrote in message
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Dapper Dan wrote:

Thanks Mart. I started out via the Google route, but before
downloading and using one I thought it prudent to ask. I'm ready to
experiment but if I can use someone else's experience, it may save
me a lot of aggravation.
Thanks again Mart, I appreciate your help.

Sorry I can't help Dan other than to suggest using Google which you
have already done. I've used BING to write zeros to entire drives
but have never attempted to do this to unused parts of a partition
where I want to retain the files. Defragging the drive doesn't
really seem to help either as I have found in the past that I have
been able to recover deleted files where the drive has subsequently
been defragged albeit that was on a system where the file system was
NTFS. --
Mike Maltby