Features	Free	Professional
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, USB, 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: USB & floppy disk or bootable CD(DOS) or CD/DVD, USB(Windows)

Customizable security levels
Supports all detected hard disk drives
Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
Displays detected drive and partition information
Scans NTFS and FAT volumes and displays existing and deleted files and folders
Data verification may be performed after erasing is completed
Disk Viewer allows you to preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive
Wipes out NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
Wipes out free clusters (unused by file data sectors)
Wipes out file slack space (unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by file)
Wipes out deleted MFT and ROOT system records
Wipes out unused space in any MFT records and compressed clusters

Supports 17 security standards:

Erases with one-pass zeros
Erases with one-pass random characters
Erases with user defined method, using user's pattern and specified number of passes
Erases with user-defined number of passes (up to 99)
US Department of Defense 5220.22 M
US Department of Defense 5220.22 M (ECE)
US Army AR380-19
US Air Force 5020
Navso P-5329-26 (MFM)
Navso P-5329-26 (RL)
NCSC-TG-025
Canadian OPS-II
HMG IS5 Baseline
HMG IS5 Enhanced
German VISTR
Bruce Schneier
Gutmann's method
Russian GOST p50739-95

Secure your data when selling your computer or hard drive by completely wiping any sensitive information from it. Active@ KillDisk is the perfect way to completely erase hard drive.

Our computers are an important part of many of our lives and we use them for so many things; not just for entertainment and communication. Internet banking is also popular as well as online shopping. Exchanging financial details over the web is an everyday thing for many of us and most people's computers contain plenty of sensitive information.

With all of this data, it is certainly an important thing to think about if you come to selling your hard drive or computer or other device containing personal data. Regardless of where the data is stored, there are situations where you really do need to get rid of it. This is where Active@ KillDisk can help.

If people sell their computer or give them to another person, they often don't think about the importance of properly deleting sensitive data. Those who are a little more familiar with the risks of not taking action to erase hard drive may simple format the disk and repartition it.

This is not actually effective enough, since data which has been deleted in the normal way is often recoverable. There are literally dozens of programs out there which can be used to recover deleted data in the vast majority of cases. To make data unrecoverable and to protect your identity and other sensitive information, you need a third-party program such as Active@ KillDisk.

Active@ KillDisk supports every version of Windows as well as many other operating systems. In fact, since it runs off its own bootable disk, it is OS independent. This small but powerful program is easy to set up and use, designed for inexperienced users as well as anyone of any other level of experience. When you use this program, all data will be completely destroyed and it will never be recoverable under any circumstances.

Make sure before using it that you have backed up or transferred any important data! The program works with any kind of digital media. Erase hard drive, flash drive, an external drive a floppy disk and virtually anything else.

Active@ KillDisk works by overwriting data rather than simply marking it as free space. Normally when you delete a file in the standard way, the space previously occupied by that file is marked as free space.

This means that, eventually, other programs and file transfers will overwrite it, at least in part. Until then the data is still recoverable, at least partly depending on these factors. Overwriting the data multiple times makes it totally impossible to recover.

Active@ KillDisk supports 17 security standards used in various countries. When you run the program, it will provide all information about the partitions on your hard drive or other media. This includes hidden partitions such as recovery partitions. You can then choose which partition or entire drive you want to completely erase. The process may take quite a while on larger hard drives, but it is still the quickest and safest method to guarantee that your data will never fall into the wrong hands. Find out more at www.killdisk.com.

James Vaughn
James Vaughn uses software to erase hard drive data on second-hand refurbished computers before selling them on to his customers.