Disk Wipe is Free and portable Windows application, that Completely wipes data from your hard drive or memory cards. The software wipes the disk using one of predefined advanced algorithms, by overwriting the existing disk data with a new, random meaningless data, and it does so multiple times, by users choice, to secure even higher level of safety.
Disk Wipe works with ANY memory storage device such as USB memory stick, various SD, mini and micro SD cards and all other devices that can be used as a memory storage and are formatted with NTFS, Fat or Fat32 (some mp3 players and cameras etc.)
Generally formatting a hard drive with regular method leaves an open possibility to recover the data back. Many companies and users who just dumped their old hard drives in rubbish had found this the hard way.
Formatting a disk drive does not actually overwrite the data, and although it is way better than deleting the file from within Windows it is still very easy to retrieve data back from a formatted disk.
Disk Wipe solves this problem efficiently, using a powerful algorithms which fill the volume with useless rubbish binary data multiple times. The possibility of recovering information from drive formatted with Disk Wipe is almost non-existent.
What is disk wiping and how it works?
The only real, and many times proven method of permanent data removal (without making a physical damage to a disk) is DISK WIPING technology.
In order to permanently wipe a data from a disk all binary data, down to a basic 0’s and 1’s must be overwritten with a new data. So, contrary to what it’s name implies disk wiping (or disk wipe method) doesn’t really wipe, or delete the disk data, it actually replaces or overwrites the existing data with a new data.
In it’s simplest form the new data written could be all zero’s, but more advanced algorithms use a combination of filling up a disk with random information plus multiple passes to make sure impossibility of retrieval from a wiped disk.
Features of Disk Wipe :
- Permanently wipes sensitive data on partitions and disk volumes.
- Portable, no installation needed
- Uses several advanced shredding algorithms (Dod 5220-22.M, US Army, Peter Guttman) to securely wipe data.
- Supports all popular Windows file systems, NTFS, Fat, Fat32.
- It uses quick format prior to disk wiping for faster performance.
- Works with USB sticks, SD cards and other portable memory devices.
- Small, light, does not contain adware.
- Respect the privacy of your information, does not try to connect to remote server and does not send any information over internet.
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