try one of these.

east-tech
1. http://www.east-tec.com/dsksanit/download.htm

autoclave - Linux
2. http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/install.html

Brian

P.S. I'm going to see about reading the code to Autoclave. See how it
works [he he he - evil laugh]. I bet I could apply this in reverse to
*read* a drive and see what goodies are left. ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:19 PM
> To: Dustin Decker
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Disk Wipe Methods
> 
> 
> OK, I have just deleted some sensitive client information 
> from my hard 
> drive and would like to sanitize those areas.  Is there software that 
> will do that without killing the whole drive?
> 
> 
> 
> Dustin Decker wrote:
> > Hehe.. was looking for something like this the other day to 
> throw gas on 
> > the fire.  Simpson Garfinkle bought a bunch of hard drives 
> from ebay over 
> > several months, and the stuff found on them was quite interesting.
> > 
> > 
> http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/s
tory/0,10801,77623,00.html
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/859843.asp?0dm=T216T&cp1=1
> 
> Cheers,
> Dustin
>