In article <u3OJsOV6HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
"Harold Browning" <haroldbrowning@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
>
> I have used this with Vista Ultimate with no apparent damage...
Hi Harold, I am a different Mark. (Mark Conrad)
The most recent version of Eraser worked great for me also, on Vista
Ultimate.
I only use Eraser for wiping the free space on my Vista partition, in
order to produce a smaller sized compressed backup file of Vista.
They do not really have easy-to-learn instructions for doing this, but I
managed to figure it out.
Eraser user has to set up his own "wipe" pattern, in my case the pattern
was all hex zeros.
Only thing I could not figure out was why they had 3 bytes to set, to
all zeros.
Oh well, at least I did not zap Vista when I wiped free space, but sure
wish I knew more about why they have 3 bytes, only the first byte being
set to all hex zeros by default.
A user is required to select bytes number 2 and 3 if he wants to use
them, which is what I did.
(I set bytes 2 and 3 to all zeros also)
Confusing about those settings, no details in the Help files.
Mark Conrad-
Linear Mode
