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cadcmcr · 12-15-2008, 05:00 PM

Hi, thanks in advance oh masterful tech gurus,

I humbly request ye assistance regarding a very perplexing question...

Long story short, I'm selling my computer to a stranger and don't like the idea of them snooping around my stuff, and I'm suspicious of the 5 second quick format vista does during a fresh install.

So I downloaded KillDisk but could only use the trial version which was just to do a single pass zero-all of the drive. Now my questions is this: Why in the world would I need to do the "German VSITR" or the "Russian GOST" or the seemingly almighty "Gutman" if a Zero-All presumably changes all the 01011101111 stuff to just 00000000000...

So you can see how this is confusing a simpleton such as myself, why do I need some fancy "Gutman" if a zero-all just completely erases everything, I mean how in the heck can anyway recover ANYTHING form all 0000000s ???

Some enlightenment would be greatly appreciated thank you SO MUCH in advance, again!

12-15-2008, 05:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
cadcmcr Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Land of the Lotus Eaters Posts: 4 OS: Vista	KILLDISK, how does it work? Hi, thanks in advance oh masterful tech gurus, I humbly request ye assistance regarding a very perplexing question... Long story short, I'm selling my computer to a stranger and don't like the idea of them snooping around my stuff, and I'm suspicious of the 5 second quick format vista does during a fresh install. So I downloaded KillDisk but could only use the trial version which was just to do a single pass zero-all of the drive. Now my questions is this: Why in the world would I need to do the "German VSITR" or the "Russian GOST" or the seemingly almighty "Gutman" if a Zero-All presumably changes all the 01011101111 stuff to just 00000000000... So you can see how this is confusing a simpleton such as myself, why do I need some fancy "Gutman" if a zero-all just completely erases everything, I mean how in the heck can anyway recover ANYTHING form all 0000000s ??? Some enlightenment would be greatly appreciated thank you SO MUCH in advance, again!