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disk scrubbing Last modified: Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Refers to a software utility used to completely  wipe-out  hard disk drives. This type of utility can usually overwrite single files, unused space on a disk, or a whole disk drive, using a series of algorithms to make it highly unlikely that anyone could ever retrieve the original data from the disk. Also see "Are Deleted Files Completely Erased?" in the "Did You Know . . . ?" section of Webopedia.
PC Guide's hard disk drive reference  Offers a large amount of information covering construction and operation, geometry and formatting, performance factors, BIOS and size issues, interfaces, configuration and file systems. CyberScrub Developers of several utilities including Privacy Suite, KeyChain, AntiuVirus, and CyberCide.	Related Categories Data Hard Disk Drives Software Related Terms algorithm data data cleansing delete format harddrive HDD software