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faither

07-17-2005, 05:57 AM

I am going to sell a 1GB CF card on ebay and wanted to make sure all the data was REALLY erased. At first I thought I could use the Wipe feature on Norton SW but it seems that's just for HD's. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks!

hapoo

07-17-2005, 06:19 AM

overwrite it with a jibberish file

zippyjuan

07-17-2005, 11:51 AM

Magnet?

Joshua

07-19-2005, 06:36 PM

Yeah, just fill it up with crap (mp3's, text files, etc...) and then erase. That'll overwrite any lingering data ghosts.

cheapie

07-19-2005, 08:30 PM

hmmm...i think i'd like to buy that card. lol.

Jeffbx

07-20-2005, 05:08 AM

There are a ton of utilities out there to do this for you. They take a loooong time to run, so you should probably set up up & let it run overnight.

Just google on 'wipe data' or 'wipe drive' - here's a free one: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/