Blackstone

Downloaded iso for v67, and on it was the '.exe' version of lblank7 - put the entire 'other' directory on my WIN10 laptop, ran lblank7.exe as admin and it zeroed-out the drive's unallocated space (awesome). It's a 300Gb HD w/58Gb data Imaging it BEFORE zeroing gave me a 'compressed' lzop file 240Gb AFTER zeroing re-imaged it gave me lzop file 46Gb... BIG difference was due to the drive had WIN7 on it taking up 276Gb (plus 'erased' crap) of the 300Gb drive, then installed WIN10 over it (total wipe...

Downloaded iso for v67, and on it was the '.exe' version of lblank7 - put the entire 'other' directory on my WIN10 laptop, ran lblank7.exe as admin and it zeroed-out the drive's unallocated space (awesome). It's a 300Gb HD w/58Gb data ~ imaging it BEFORE zeroing gave me a 'compressed' file 240Gb AFTER zeroing re-imaged it gave me file 46Gb... BIG difference was due to the drive had WIN7 on it taking up 276Gb (plus 'erased' crap) of the 300Gb drive, then installed WIN10 over it (total wipe - saved...

OK - so, we're talking about a single OS laptop running Win10, not linux, so no grub... My WIN10 sez bitlocker is OFF... can I just run lblank7 that is in the cd of my g4l (copy it to another usb that WIN10 can see) while in windows via it's command prompt? There's lblank7 and lblank7_64 - neither one has '.exe' after it... there's a 'blank6.exe' on it...

OK - so, we're talking about a single OS laptop running Win10, not linux, so no grub... My WIN10 sez bitlocker is OFF... can I just run lblank7.exe that is in the cd or usb of g4l (copy it to another usb that WIN10 can see) while in windows via it's command prompt? There's lblank7 and lblank7_64 - guess use lblank7_64.exe?

is there a way to get windows cipher.exe to just write the zero's and not the full: once with a series of 0's (zero) once with a series of 255's once with a series of random numbers just want the deleted files space 'emptied', not overwritten to prevent recovery... sfdisk -l /dev/sda shows: sda1 is EFI system, sda2 is microsoft reserved, sda3 is microsoft basic data, and sda4 is windows recovery environment ntfsck /dev/sda3 says command not found fsck -f /dev/sda3 - not willing to use this - seems...

trying to use G4L's utility zerotool on my win10 partition sda3 w/UEFI boot using g4l v0.66a and booted as UEFI w/no problem - trying to use its zerotool and it comes up with: Progress /bin/g4l: line 132: 0bits: Read-only file system ncftpstatus: OK ...but nothing happens :-\ does the zerotool not work on my win10 partition?

hnsky 4.1.33b (lower case this time for some reason) installed perfectly - all the weirdness is gone ~ works flawlessly! Thanks han.k - couldn't have done it without your indispensable help ;-) HAPPY CAMPER - now, gotta get out the telescope and 'play'....

Ubuntu Software window sez version 4.3.2b is 'potentially unsafe' and 'unknown license'... then goes into 'Unable to find HNSKY.desktop'... but appears to have uninstalled - thanks. Next: install version 4.1.33b and see how that works ;-)