[lug] drive free space "wiper" recommendation

[Robert Racansky]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> > i need to ship a computer back that's under warranty.
>> i've already moved / deleted the files off of the drive that
>> i deemed sensitive.  th
>> >
>> > can anybody recommend a good, free, non spyware based
>> utility to help me "wipe" the free space left by my previous
>> deletes and moves?  dban looks like an *entire* drive wipe
>> utility.  i don't want to permanently delete the entire
>> drive, just the unused space.
>> >
>> > fyi, this is a win xp based system.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
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>> Eraser
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>> http://eraser.heidi.ie/
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>> Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which
>> allows you to
>> completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by
>> overwriting
>> it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser
>> is currently
>> supported under Windows XP (with Service Pack 3), Windows
>> Server 2003
>> (with Service Pack 2), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008,
>> Windows 7
>> and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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> that looked like a winner, unfortunately my system is installed with Service Pack 2. i'm not sure the SP3 update will go smoothly and or would prefer to find something that isn't Service pack specific.
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> thanks for the tip though.  good to know for all other up to date OSs!
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Use version 5

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/files/