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   John Dulak to Jon Danniken   
   Re: Overwrite (securely delete) a file i   
   06 Mar 17 15:41:10   
   
   XPost: comp.os.msdos.misc   
   From: Johnd@Booogus.com   
      
   On 3/5/2017 6:34 PM, Jon Danniken wrote:   
   > I have an old IDE drive that I need to remove some files from in a DOS   
   > environment.  Is there any way to overwrite the data in those files   
   > (like one would do with srm or shred) in a DOS environment?   
   >   
   > Thanks for any tips.   
      
   Jon:   
      
   I use "CopyWipe" from Terabyte.   
      
   https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php   
      
   https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/copywipe.zip   
      
   http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/copywipe.pdf   
      
   It has options for zero fill, random fill and, for the truly paranoid, multi   
   pass random fill.   
      
   As the name implies it can also copy an entire drive from DOS.   
      
   HTH & GL   
      
   John   
      
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