Techniques to wipe confidential data permanently
If you are planning to sell your computer and you don’t want your personal data to be shared with anyone. It can be possible using good third party software. The software will help you to delete the data permanently without leaving any chances of being recovered. The wipe drive tool is an advanced drive wiping tool from which you can securely erase complete hard drive or logical drive using 9 erasing patterns. Wipe drive unlinks deleted files and folders from Recycle Bin and overwrites old data with garbage data making recovery impossible. Any type of data can be shred permanently irrespective to its size or format. When you delete, format, partition/repartition, empty Recycle Bin, you think that the files are deleted permanently, but it is not true. There are still possibilities that your data can be restored.
It is really important to delete everything on the hard drive of the computer before you plan to sell it because some of your private and confidential data can be misused by other people. The confidential or private data can be anything like bank account information, credit card number, social security number etc. The confidential data should not only be protected according to the strict policy, but it should also be reliably and completely destroyed. Just deleting the files will not completely erase the data present in the files. It will just mark the file as deleted, while the contents of the file still remain on the hard drive which can be recovered using any recovery software. As per the general standard, if the data you want to be erase completely, it should be overwritten at least three times. Drive Wipe lets you completely erase a particular drive and makes sure that data is not recovered by any other recovery software or any other hardware methods.
Wipe Drive tool is equipped with nine sanitization standards prescribed by the US Department of Defense, the US Navy and other government agencies around the globe. The software provides various other wiping options like confirmations, passwords, scheduler, etc. The software also lets you wipe free space, so that all your deleted files are also shredded completely. Remo drive wipe tool is an advanced drive wipe tool (for Windows), which let you to completely remove your sensitive or confidential data from hard drive or logical drives by overwriting it several times. The software carefully selects the data shredding patterns and various international disk sanitization standards. The software is compactable with Microsoft Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 on both 32-bit and 64-bit PC’s. It just provides simple user interface which will help you to safely and easily erase you private and confidential data from your hard drive. It allows you to wipe the complete hard drive and even a logical drive as well within few minutes of time. The software offers maximum number of methods for drive wiping and completely deletes the data and makes sure that data recovery is impossible. You can download the demo version and preview the results.