Active@ KillDisk is a powerful and compact software that allows 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. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.
Once you erase a disk with Active@ KillDisk, all the sensitive information on it will be destroyed forever.
Here are some key features of "Active@ KillDisk":
· Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive or logical partition
· Erases partitions, logical drives and unused disk space
· Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
· Supports solid state drives (SSD)
· Supports fixed disks, floppies, zip drives, FlashMedia drives
· Supports large-sized drives (more than 128GB)
· Supports Command Line mode (can be run with no user interaction)
· Operates from bootable floppy disk or bootable CD (DOS version)
· Operates from bootable CD/DVD, USB (Windows version)
Limitations:
· The free version supports only the one pass erase method
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New features: Erasing/Wiping Certificate can be displayed after completion for printing;
· Erasing/Wiping Certificate can be saved as a PDF;
· Progress bar improved to display current pass and overall status;
· Progress now shows elapsed time and estimated time to completion;
· If several drives are selected to be erased, queue progress is displayed;
· Log filename and path can be specified in settings;
· Log is improved to display details for each pass and verification;
· Progress now shows elapsed time and estimated time to completion;
· Session Log can be viewed while erasing/wiping is in progress;
· Command line options added to support certificate and log file options.