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5. Roadkil’s Disk Wipe
Roadkil has many little useful tools and Disk Wipe is just about as easy and simple to operate as they come. The program is a tiny portable executable of around 50K and can overwrite partitions or physical discs selectable from the drop down menu. Simply select whether you want to blank the drive with zero’s or random data and enter the number of passes in the box, then click the button to erase. Disk Wipe also works on floppy disks and USB pen sticks and is compatible with Windows 95 and above.
Disk sectors and volumes can be inspected on a low level in advanced Disk Viewer: Controls or stops erase process based on S.M.A.R.T. Parameters and disk erase speed: Supports operations over group of disks (Batch operations) Disk Cloning from different sources available after disk erase is complete. The goal is to make sure the disk will not work when it is loaded into another hard drive. A powerful rare earth magnet can also be used to destroy the platter in the hard drive. How Norton Utilities can help wipe your hard drive. Your PC is likely packed with personal files. It’s wise to keep all that information secure and private. Symantec Endpoint Encryption protects sensitive information and ensures regulatory compliance. It encrypts all files on the hard drive, sector-by-sector, for maximum security. It supports Windows, Mac, tablets, self-encrypting drives, and removable media (USB drives, external hard drives, and DVDs).
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6. Hardwipe
Hardwipe has quite a few useful features and in addition to erasing drives or partitions completely, it can also securely erase files, folders and the drive’s remaining free space. Since we last looked at Hardwipe it has gained the welcome addition of an official portable version although the small trade off is you don’t get the right click Explorer context menu options found in the installer version which allows you to wipe selected files, drives or free space at the click of the button. The program has also gained advertising in its main window in the latest release which isn’t too distracting thankfully.
To select a volume click the Wipe drive button on the left and select the drive or partition to sanitize. There are 6 erasing methods; zero fill, random fill (default), GOST R 50739-95 (2 pass), DOD 5220.22-M (3 pass), Schneier (7 pass) and the fully paranoid Gutmann 35 pass method. The erase can be verified and the computer can be shutdown after the wiping completes. Auto throttling could be useful and reduces wiping speed if it detects the computer is being used or there is mouse / keyboard activity. Hardwipe works on Windows XP SP2 and above.
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7. Disk Wipe
Disk Wipe is an easy to use and standalone portable utility that works with hard drives, USB sticks and memory cards etc, and is able to erase them using a variety of different methods. The program will also format the drive before wiping because it works faster if it does so, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS can be chosen. There are 7 erasing types to choose from including the quick zero fill, random fill and GOST 2 pass (1 zero, 1 random) methods, and the slower British HMG, DOD 5220 and Gutmann methods. A View Data option allows you to view the drive to see what data is present in each cluster, Disk Wipe works on Windows XP and above.
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8. MiniTool Drive Wipe
MiniTool are the people behind the excellent partition manager Partition Wizard, and another one of their tools is the simple to use Drive wipe. Sadly the program isn’t portable unless you know how to extract it with Universal Extractor, so may be best suited to erasing external USB sticks or hard drives etc.
The program has 2 main options on startup, Wipe Partition or Wipe Disk, and you simply select the volume to wipe using the partition manager style disc layout. There are 5 basic erasing methods available; zero’s or one’s single pass, a zero’s and one’s 2 pass, and the DOD 3 or 7 pass methods. Drive Wipe works on Windows 2000 and above.
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Editor’s Note: Anybody wondering why other good sanitizing tools such as CCleaner or Eraser aren’t included here, it’s because they were covered in a similar article about wiping the free space on hard drives which is also well worth reading.
Special Note: There has been much talk on the internet over the years about how many passes and how much sanitizing needs to be done to make the data on a drive irretrievable. The general consensus is that 1 or maybe even 2 passes is about all you really need to wipe a hard drive, 3 at the most, anything above that is pretty much pointless. In this case a random fill is generally preferred to a single 0 or 1 fill. Even the man behind the famous 35 pass method, Peter Gutmann, has said in his paper on the subject, for drives manufactured since around 2001, 2 random passes is the best you can do.
SSD’s are slightly different again and because of the service functions they have such as wear leveling etc, a standard overwrite with a piece of software is not always enough. In this case, running an ATA Secure Erase command included in the firmware of all modern drives is the best solution and takes very little time compared to a full erase. This resets the memory storage cells back to factory condition and wipes the data off, something which is often recommended to also restore performance to slow running SSD drives. Parted Magic’s Eraser and HDDErase both can perform this function.
Another option is encrypting the drive with something like Bitlocker or Truecrypt before a 1 pass or secure erase. This way, in the highly unlikely event anything is left that is recoverable, it’s encrypted anyway. Of course, you’re welcome to run as many passes to sanitize your drive as you wish or feel comfortable with, but in all reality, there appears to be very little to be gained running any more than 1 or 2 passes.
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hey can u suggest me any data wiping tool more efficient than DBAN.???
ReplyWhy are you suggesting DBAN is not efficient? They all wipe the drive so will do a similar job.
Anyway, that’s why we give you eight choices, if one isn’t to your liking there are others to choose from.
ReplyI used Darik’s Boot And Nuke (DBAN) from a bootable USB drive.
After creating the bootable USB drive, I hit F2 and changed the boot sequence of my laptop to pick USB first. Once booted from USB drive, I used the autonuke option. Two and a half hours later, the Hard drive has been wiped clean. I repeated the DBAN autonuke a second time just for good measure.
I used Hiten Boot Disk to see if any files could be recovered from hard drive and there’s nothing there! Success! Thanks
This really helped me get around a pesky FBI investigation
ReplyThanks for your article but I need additional help please. I have a Dell Latitude E5530 and I want to prevent deleted files from being recovered. I want to keep existing files. What is the best software for that purpose please? Thanks.
Arthur
ReplyCCleaner has this feature
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Replyrofl, be sure to trust with the data so important and dangerous that you want to wipe with a 7pass and zeroing with the corporation that had a malware attack that infected over 2.3 million users who downloaded or updated their CCleaner app between August and September
ReplyI have used Unistal’s data wipe software which wipes the data from the hard drive so that it can never be recovered from any software.
ReplyThanks for the useful information Raymond And HAL9000.
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Thanks a lot Ray!!!
Replynice post.
ReplyToday I read your column and it’s really very nice in order for us users to protect our privacy.
Nice post Mr. Ray. Thank you very much and more power in this blog.
very very very nice
thanks a lot Mr. Raymond
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Replythanks for the post…really very useful….
saw the thing in action….
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Freeware Disk Wipe Utility
- Supported OS: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: 1 GHz or above
- RAM: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for 64-bit)
- Free Hard Disk Space: 100 MB or more