ISO freeware for partial wiping of harddrives
Can anybody suggest freeware that can be used to DoD wipe only the unused part of a harddrive? That is, I have a working computer that I want to sell and I want to make sure that no data can be recovered from unused part of the drive (where there used to be files that were simply deleted). I don't want to wipe the whole drive and reinstall OS. Thx
ISO freeware for partial wiping of harddrives
There is a utility built into Windows that will do just that let me dig around to find the name.
The program is called cipher it is in Windows 2000 and newer.
You type it at the cmd prompt cipher /w:c would wipe the free space on the C drive.
Just remember some of your data could still be recovered. if it shares a sector that is used that may not get wiped.
ISO freeware for partial wiping of harddrives
I would run it then do a defrag and run it again. Running it more than once on the same drive with no changes would not do much.
cipher does a 3 pass wipe.
P.S.
I just did some digging on MS technet and found an article in cipher. It covers Windows 7, 8, Vista, Server 2003, 2008 and 2012.