On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 04:56:02 -0700, "DaleB" wrote:

Hi:
Can anyone suggest any aplications (freeware, shareare,etc.)
that will actually wipe your hard drive clean
not just erase the pointers
so that any persoanl data that may have been on the Hard Disk
is not retrievable by anyone
no matter how good of a hacker they may be ?

This option is an option of many HDD manufacturers' utilities (like Data Lifeguard for Western
Digital, etc).

See also: "Erase Sensitive Files and Data from your PC"
http://www.help2go.com/article161.html

Will doing a reformat/re-install of Windows (98)
accomplish this ?

No. Most of the data can be retrieved even after repartitioning and reformatting the HDD.

If so, how would one do it ?
From an Emergency BackUP CD ?

No.

A system floppy ?

If to keep the erasing DOS-program on this diskette (like the programs of the HDD manufacturers).

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Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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