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Completely deleting files

I've been looking for commands that would allow me the control to completely erase a file.
By this I mean writing over the exact loacation a file occupies on the hard drive itself, so to
write 1's, for example, over those locations.
Nov 21 '05 #1
3 949

Nothing can prevent you of writing some data to file (for example, 1 or 0).
Just get the file size and write as many bytes as necessary.

<Jh***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:g7F_d.81124$r55.58464@attbi_s52...
I've been looking for commands that would allow me the control to
completely erase a file.
By this I mean writing over the exact loacation a file occupies on the
hard drive itself, so to
write 1's, for example, over those locations.

Nov 21 '05 #2
But you will need to perform a write 7 times (government wipe) to be safe.
Nov 21 '05 #3
But you will need to perform a write 7 times (government wipe) to be safe.
Nov 21 '05 #4

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