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Follow-up to Pac IT Pros July 6th meeting

July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment

To wipe a disk all you need to do is use Microsoft’s Diskpart.  (Included with XP and later.)

Select the disk , and use the command clean all.   Works on all HD and USB sticks.  This is all that is needed to wipe the disk.

http://support.microsoft.com  /kb/300415

RAM – It appears MS loads the contents of the swap file into RAM and the RAM which litters the RAM with previous used data.  We’ve confirmed it can contain data from 45 days ago.  So a login ID used 45 days previous was found in RAM even though the computer had been in regular use.   We were able to do the same with a Ghosted machine from 2 years previous.  We are still investigating the details.

Doug Spindler


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