Paragon Disk Wiper 10 (32-bit) Personal

Paragon Disk Wiper 10 (32-bit) Personal is a very powerful program for you which securely erases your data held on your hard disk. This is essential for any disk, as data is too easily recovered if you rely on the standard delete function or formatting your hard disk. Paragon Disk Wiper can completely erase a whole hard disk or partition, or delete just the sensitive files scattered around your system. It guarantees secure and easy erasure of your critical data with the powerful algorithm and customization option, wizard-based interface and extensive reporting. You can irreversibly destroy all on-disk data easily and quickly, so as it cannot be recovered with any present-day technology.

Major Features:

1. Wipe operations
   • Wipe a partition
   • Wipe an entire hard disk
   • Wipe only free space (destroy any remnants of deleted files/directories left on disk without affecting the used data)
   • New Paragon developed algorithm
   • Your own customized wiping method (extreme customization option - 4 wiping patterns with up to 99 passes each)
   • Integrate report on the accomplished wipe operation with possibility to print it out or save locally
   • View sectors on existing partitions for getting information on the current state of sectors to check whether the wipe operation has been successfully accomplished or not
   • Logging of bad blocks (corrupted sectors) discovered during the operation to keep the user informed, since these sectors may contain classified information
2. Hard disk partitioning operations
   • Сheck File System Integrity
   • Create, format and delete partitions
   • Set or change drive letter
   • Update MBR (Master Boot Record) with standard code
3. Safety and Recovery
   • Automatic generation and sending operations logs over email for quick and easy technical support
   • Bootable Wiping Media providing the same interface and functionality under DOS
   • Power Shield™ technology - resuming critical operations after power failure
   • Disk surface test function
4. Easy to use
   • Virtual pre-execution for all not wizard-guided operations
   • New Wipe Wizard enables to successfully destroy all on-disk information including standard bootstrap code and other system service structures, thus providing high level of security, and that even beginners may understand
   • Build up bootable wiping media with the DOS-based version of the program to boot from and destroy all on-disk information even when the current operating system cannot boot anymore
   • Operations usually not possible under Windows will be automatically performed in a special mode during OS reboot with a New easy-to-use GRAPHICAL user interface
5. Auxiliary utilities
   • Burn any ISO image with the help of the Wiping Media Builder
     

Enhancements:

• Windows 7 support
• Improved program core engine
• GPT-formatted (GUID Partition Table) hard disks support

Requirements:

• Supported Operating Systems
• • Windows 7 (32/64Bit)
  • Windows Vista (32/64Bit)
  • Windows XP Home Edition SP2
  • Windows XP Professional SP2 (32/64Bit)
  • Windows 2000 Professional
• Supported Hard drives and removable media
• • Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD
  • Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
  • GPT-formatted (GUID Partition Table) HDD
  • SCSI HDD
  • All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID
  • USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
  • PC card storage devices
• Supported File Systems
• • NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
  • FAT16
  • FAT32
  • Linux Ext2FS
  • Linux Ext3FS
  • Linux Swap
  • HPFS
  • Other file systems (in Sector-by-Sector mode)
• System Requirements
• • CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 300 MHz or higher processor
  • RAM: 256 MB of RAM
  • Disk space: 120 Mb
  • Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher