[Coco] OT- Hard Drive cleaner software.

[Frank Pittel]

These day the software publisher would get sued for that move!!

The Other Frank


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:21:58PM -0400, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> Brings back a CoCo-related memory....
> 
> There was a CoCo game from Computerware called Mr. Dig.
> Copy-protected.  Its instructions said to boot it from Drive 0.  A
> friend of mine made the mistake of trying to boot the game from Drive
> 1.  The game checked the contents of the disk in Drive 0 and
> determined that it did not look like a genuine game disk (since the
> game disk wasn't in Drive 0 but Drive 1).  So, the game destroyed the
> disk in Drive 0 by writing BUY YOUR OWN over the disk's GAT and
> directory sectors.
> 
> My friend lost some irreplaceable data that was on his Drive 0 disk.  Ouch!
> 
> Art
> 
> Art
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Stephen H. Fischer
> <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got scared when I read the web site words, part of which I copied and
> > pasted.
> >
> > Same words? as 15 + years ago when I used it once.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Floppy is red with !WARNING! !DANGER!.
> >
> > "NUKE Boot Disk ERASES ALL! DRIVES"
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Maybe they changed it, and I am NOT going to boot that RED disk to test my
> > bad memory.
> >
> > Or even put it into a drive and surely not boot it with any drives connected
> > except the one I want to erase.
> >
> > ===============================
> >
> > I have an old GPS that with 2-3 keystrokes will erase all memory.
> >
> > Useful if you see the KGB coming and you are a spy in Russia.
> >
> > SHF
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Blake" <random.rodder at gmail.com>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] OT- Hard Drive cleaner software.
> >
> >
> >> On 6/19/2012 10:45 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Floppy Version worked great for me. BUT!!!
> >>>
> >>> *"DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard
> >>> disk that it can detect"*
> >>>
> >>> CAN DETECT!!!!!!!!
> >>>
> >>> So watch out what drives are connected.
> >>>
> >>> SHF
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There may well be a setting in Dban that allows for the automatic wipe of
> >> any hard drives it detects, but, I've never used or even looked for the
> >> feature.
> >>
> >> I've used Dban since 2005 and it has never done ANYTHING that I did NOT
> >> tell it specifically to do. I've used it on systems with multiple drives, to
> >> only wipe one drive, without affecting the other drive in any way. And it's
> >> never done anything automatically, either. I've always had to select the
> >> drive, and then the type of wipe I wanted. Working as the IT Director for a
> >> non-profit, I have used Dban on upwards of 150 PC's I sent for surplus and
> >> never had an issue like you described.
> >>
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