Mike wrote:
 MP> A friend of mine that is running WinXP has asked me if there is a way to
 MP> permanently delete a file from his system.  He knows he can use Shift-Del
 MP> to make it look deleted, but he is asking how to completely remove files
 MP> from the system so that they can never be recovered (bank info, etc.).

	Johny come lately here, sorry. I have set up some friends with a  D:\
partition for their "classified" information. When the time comes
it is formatted in toto. Gone-Nada-Zilch left. That small partition is only
10 Gs on their 500 to 1000 Gs HD and has served well since.

	Granted, some labs can read data a few layers down, run a special
programme to zero it all, at repetition.

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