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Autoclave - hard drive sterilization on a bootable floppy

From:  Dennis Henderson <dennis.henderson@gmail.com>
Date:  Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:23:28 -0500
Newsgroups:  grc.linkfarm

 What does Autoclave do? It securely erases everything in the writable
 space on a hard drive. Everything. All the files, all the free space,
 the partition table, the boot sector, the works. This includes the
 operating system and any preinstalled packages your hardware vendor may
 have included on the drive when you got it. Everything. I don't know how
 to say this more emphatically. When Autoclave is done running, you will
 have a hard drive filled with zeros, and nothing else.

 http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

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