RE: 386spart.par win386.swp

jcaldwel@iquest.net
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:33:05 -0500 (EST)

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On 28-Jun-98 Simon R Knight wrote:

> Examining the first 16k of my "Windows For Workgroups"
> permanent swap file (386spart.par), I note that all the bytes
> are set to FF hex. I have read that if the begining of this file is
> wiped (from DOS) then an error will occur when Windows is
> re-started.

No, there is some freeware tools that are damned good at wiping that file,
they trucate the hidden space at the end of dos file, wipe deleted files and
wipe empty space on the drive.

This is the one I remember, good stuff dos/W3xx/WFWF3xx though if '95 is using
FAT16 or vfat they should work ok but I don't know about FArT32. The author
does seem to have a '95 zapswap version.

http://www.sky.net/~voyageur/wipeutil.htm

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