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overwrite

[¦ō·vər¦rīt]
(computer science)
To enter information into a storage location and destroy the information previously held there.

overwrite

To record new data on top of existing data in a rewritable medium such as main memory, magnetic disk or rewritable optical disks. See direct overwrite.
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Some utilities let you overwrite files multiple times with patterns of ones and zeroes, but computer forensic software may still recover them if the method used isn't strong enough.
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Overwriting can be accomplished by various utility programs and commands that overwrite files and free space on disks using alternating patterns of binary digits - 1s and 0s.
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But any PC user who is trying to purge his or her system of confidential data will want to completely overwrite the sectors on the hard drive where the data resides.
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Fully configurable and easy to deploy, cyberCide supports 85 partition types, overwrites both physical and logical drives and allows the user to select unique wipe methods for each space.
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