Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser 5.0 build 5.599

Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser 5.0 build 5.599 supplies you with a powerful and compact software which enables you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility.

Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann's data destruction method is also implemented. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data. It is highly recommended that you run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.

Major Features:

1. Active@ KillDisk  FREE version features:
   • Detects and displays information about all partitions, hard disks and floppy drives currently connected to your computer
   • Wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives completely by secure overwriting data on physical level using [One Pass Zeros] data destruction method
   • Erases partitions, logical drives and even not used disk space
   • Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
   • Supports IDE, SATA and SCSI drives
   • Supports larger than 128GB hard disks via using LBA(LBA48) mode to access drive's data
   • File systems (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc) on the drive do not matter, detected physical drive is erased using low-level disk access
   • Double confirmation excludes possibility of accidental erasing of data on a drive
   • Very easy to use, utility has intuitive console interface and command line mode for the advanced users
   • Works on any system capable of boot from floppy in DOS mode
   • Utility is so compact that can be placed on bootable diskette and used from it. You do not even need to boot from the hard drive to destroy it
   • Cleans hard drive, floppies, etc.
   • FREE product updates from the Web
2. Active@ KillDisk  Professional version  additional features:
   • All above-mentioned
   • Data verification could be performed after erasing is completed
   • Erases with user defined method, using user’s pattern and specified number of passes
   • Both WIPE and KILL methods support 17 security standards from various countries such as:
   • • Bruce Schneier's algorithm
     • Canadian OPS-II
     • DoD 5220.22 M
     • Gutmann's algorithm
     • German VSITR
     • HMG IS5 Baseline
     • HMG IS5 Enhanced
     • Navso P-5329-26 (RL)
     • Navso P-5329-26 (MFM)
     • NCSC-TG-025
     • Russian GOST p50739-95
     • US Army AR380-19
     • US Air Force 5020
     • One-pass zeros method
     • One-pass random characters method
     • User defined method (user’s pattern and specified number of passes)
     • User-defined number of passes (up to 99)
       
3. Command Line Mode
   • Utility has command line mode. It allows you to start erase procedure automatically.
   • By running utility with parameters you can:
   • • Start erasing of all floppy drives, hard drives or all detected drives different types
     • Cancel confirmation of the erase command
     • Specify data destruction method
     • Show or hide error messages (if any).

• Adds new Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.

Requirements:

• Personal Computer
• • IBM PC/AT compatible CPU
  • Operates with processors Intel Pentium or higher
  • 300 MB of RAM
  • Video must be VGA or better resolution (800x600)
• Drive Storage System
• • CD or DVD-ROM drive
  • Hard Disk Drive type IDE, ATA, SATA or SCSI with controllers (additional drivers could be loaded for RAIDs or non-standard controllers after system booted up)
• Other Requirements
• • A blank CD or DVD to burn an ISO image.