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Date:	Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:04:58 -0800
From:	Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCs & WIN2K...Cohabitation...?

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Ray Davison wrote:
> [snip]
> However that last part for me is not quite true. I have never gotten
> eCS to install on a "USED" HDD except for my laptop. For a desktop I
> install eCS as a primary on a clean, 3G HDD, and give it the drive
> letter I chose. I then copy it to an extended on the work machine.
>
> Ray
> I had the same problem of trying to install eCS on a used hard drive.
> I tried several disk-cleaning programs without success until at Office
> Depot I found their Data Deletion Suite. It has two CD's. One is
> SecureClean for Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP only. It didn't work as
> advertised. Tech support said that they couldn't replicate the
> problem. The other CD has WipeDrive for "all versions of DOS,
> Windows 3x, 9x, ME, 2000, XP, OS/2 and PC based Linux/Unix".
I've two used hard drives that eCS refused to install on. After using
WipeDrive it reported both to be "clean" and eCS 1.2R installed without
any problems.
Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado

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