re disk safety measure cuffell spot colorado edu tim cuffel writes there is no guarantee that the deleted space would be overwritten during optimization likely but no guarantee a quicker and more secure method would be a batch file that overwrote all of your free space for example fill bat echo out fill bat this is off the top of my head include std disclaimer h it is much easier faster and probably even more secure to use norton utilties i m talking ibm pc here and to tell wipeinfo to a clean the free disk space and b clean the slack space at the end of the files use to government standard option for more careful overwriting regards vesselin vesselin vladimirov bontchev virus test center university of hamburg tel fax fachbereich informatik agn pgp public key available on request vogt koelln strasse rm c e mail bontchev fbihh informatik uni hamburg de d hamburg germany
