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- Program : ZDISK - Zero unused DISK sectors for security purposes.
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- Format : zdisk drv Where drv is an optional drive letter parameter
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- Version : 3.1
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- Author : S. E. Kleiner
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- Function : Write over currently unused sectors of a disk to secure
- information in files that were deleted. When the DOS
- DEL or ERASE commands are used to remove files, they
- only remove the files from the directory. The actual
- file data still remains on the disk and can be examined
- via various utilities. Even when alternate utilities are
- used to remove files which do "zero" the file before removal,
- many commercial programs erase/delete old versions of a file
- when creating a new one (editors, etc.). Therefore,
- confidential information may still be left on the disk.
- ZDISK prevents recovery of this information by overwriting
- all unused sectors on the disk.
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- Description: ZDISK creates two files in the root directory of the current
- drive which fill the entire remaining disk space (generally
- for a hard disk), thus covering any usused (deleted) sectors.
- The files are made of blocks which consist of a signature:
- "ZDisk version xxx was here.",
- followed by zeroes (00 Hex). The first file uses 32K blocks
- for speed. The second file uses smaller blocks to assure
- that every available sector is written to. ZDISK erases the
- files it has written, thus returning the space to the available
- pool. If an error terminates ZDISK, the temporary files may be left on the
- disk using up space. If this happens simply use the
- DOS DEL or ERASE command to remove the files from the root
- directory.