The Wipe Disk procedure, like with the erase procedure, allows you to
specify the erase method used, as well as a few additional wipe-specific options.
- Erase method
- One of 20+ sanitizing methods, including many international standards and custom
patterns supported by KillDisk
- Erase verification
- Percentage of disk to be verified after wiping out unused clusters
- Wipe unused clusters
- Erase areas of the hard drive that are not formatted and not currently used by the
operating system (data has not been recently written there unless this is a recently
deleted partition)
- Wipe metadata and system files area
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Erase areas of the disk containing information about previous files on the volume and
prevents recovery of files using past records of them
- Wipe slack space in file clusters
- Erase slack space within files. Files are allocated a set amount of space by the OS, in
certain increments (depending on the file system). Because files are usually never
exactly the size of the space allocated to them, there may be unused space within
a file that may contain traces of data. This algorithm wipes this space to remove these
data traces.