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I need to wipe some flash drives clean as new.
What are some options for scrubbing drives?
What are some options for scrubbing drives?
"Sorry, Alvin, but Windows version of formatting is like using a greasy shop rag to sterilize surgical instruments" -Trotter
KillDisk offers a free solution for 0 bit wipes, but to get more serious ones, you need some cash.
Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility.
If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted files (using undelete or unformat tools) and use against the owner's will. We highly recommend you to run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.
Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann's data destruction method is also implemented.
Both WIPE and KILL functions support 17 security standards from various countries such as USA, Canada, Germany and others. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever.
Version 5.2 (Windows application):
1. 5.2 version supports 17 security standards from various countries such as:
* Bruce Schneier's algorithm
Canadian OPS-II
DoD 5220.22 M
Gutmann's algorithm
German VSITR
HMG IS5 Baseline
HMG IS5 Enhanced
Navso P-5329-26 (RL)
Navso P-5329-26 (MFM)
NCSC-TG-025
Russian GOST p50739-95
US Army AR380-19
US Air Force 5020
One-pass zeros method
One-pass random characters method
User defined method (user's pattern and specified number of passes)
User-defined number of passes (up to 99)
2. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.
3. Professional package now includes Windows Vista-based Bootable Disk Creator that allows you to boot Windows Vista from CD/DVD/USB, and to erase or wipe out your disks in Windows environment. USB Plug'n'Play devices are supported.
4. The FREE application can be registered with a registration key without re-installation to be able to erase data using DoD 5220.22-M and other methods.
I hate to say isn't that a form of windows formatting? haha
I was posing that I do not know any other than GParted that "might" wipe you flash.