elcapitan
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Ah sounds good just been getting sector copy images of same disk dropping from 150 to 200 gb down to 10gb, a 400gb drive down to about 8gb !! Used ccleaner on another machine about to prep so am happy don't need to lose a few hrs deleting it
Fab
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Oops seems this damn tablet has let me put posting in wrong section.
Moderators plz rectify
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Qquestion:
What method does cleaner use to wipe disks?
I we that it is fast. .. having just used delete cmd line.
Reason I ask is not security Q...... it is about space & compression. With the win10 deadline approaching I am doing a lot of disk imaging at diff stages to backstop any probe (had a dual switchable gdfix laptop that caused headaches)...... and having a shock when a supposed empty disk is making v large images.
Zeroing the free space means MACRIUM GHOST ACRONIS etc just sees a large block of zeroes and squashes it to next to niL...... much quicker too.
So zeroes or random? Roadkill blanking util v slow. sdelete not too slow.
Any typos sort blame wretched tablet & predictive overrides.
drive wipe - random or zeros
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Just saw it doing work on a machine upgdg.. see it makes crazy set of directories & subdirs named in iterations of zz. Then it mzkes one big file of random name and grows it. Good to know it is filling it with zeroes