1.1.1 Advanced Data Recovery Systems

Advances in data recovery have been made such that data can be reclaimed in many cases from hard drives that have been wiped and disassembled.

Security agencies use advanced applications to find cybercrime-related evidence. Also there are established industrial spy agencies adopting sophisticated channel coding techniques such as Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), a technique used to reconstruct the data on magnetic disks.

Other methods include the use of magnetic force microscopy and recovery of data based on patterns in erase bands.

Although there are very sophisticated data recovery systems available at a high price, data can easily be restored with the help of an off-the-shelf data recovery utility like Active@ File Recovery, making your erased confidential data quite accessible.

Using Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives, our powerful and compact utility, all data on your hard drive or removable USB / floppy drive can be destroyed without the possibility of future recovery.

After using Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives, disposal, recycling, selling or donating your storage device can be done with peace of mind.

1.1.2 International Standards in Data Removal

Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives conforms to four international standards for clearing and sanitizing data. You can be sure that once you erase a disk with Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives, sensitive information is destroyed forever.

Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives is a quality security application that destroys data permanently from any computer that can be started using a DOS USB / floppy disk.

Access to the drive's data is made on the physical level via the Basic Input-Output Subsystem (BIOS), bypassing the operating system's logical drive structure organization.

Regardless of the operating system, file systems or type of machine, this utility can destroy all data on all storage devices.

It does not matter which operating systems or file systems are located on the machine, it can be DOS, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux or Unix for PC.

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  1. Product Overview
    1. Erasing Confidential Data
      1. Advanced Data Recovery Systems
      2. International Standards in Data Removal
    2. Wiping Confidential Data from Unoccupied Drive Space
  2. System Requirements for DOS and Windows versions
    1. Personal Computer
    2. Drive Storage System
    3. Other Requirements
    4. Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives Version
  3. Running Active@ KillDisk for DOS
    1. Preparing a DOS-Bootable USB / floppy
      1. System Formatting
      2. Copying Active@ KillDisk to a USB / floppy
      3. One-Step Method
    2. Preparing a Bootable CD
    3. Modes of Operation
      1. Interactive Mode
        1. Erase Data from a Device
        2. Wiping the Data
      2. DOS Command Line Mode
      3. Autoexecute Mode
    4. Erasing or Wiping Logical Drives (Partitions)
    5. Erase Operation Complete
  4. Running Active@ KillDisk for Windows
    1. Active@ Boot Disk Creator
    2. Modes of Operation
    3. Command Line Mode
    4. Erasing or Wiping Logical Drives (Partitions)
    5. Erase Data from a Logical Drive
    6. Wipe Data from a Logical Drive
  5. Common Questions
    1. How does the licensing work?
    2. How is the data erased?
    3. What is the difference between the Site and Enterprise license?
    4. Which operating systems are supported by Active@ KillDisk?
    5. Is Active@ KillDisk compatible with Macintosh computers?
    6. What to do if I cannot boot from a USB / floppy?
    7. Will I be able to use my Hard Disk Drive after Active@ KillDisk erase operation?
  6. Descriptions of Erase/Wipe Parameters
    1. Erase/Wipe Methods
      1. One Pass Zeros or One Pass Random
      2. User Defined
      3. US DoD 5220.22-M
      4. US DoD 5220.22-M (ECE)
      5. German VSITR
      6. Russian GOST p50739-95
      7. Canadian OPS-II
      8. HMG IS5 Baseline
      9. HMG IS5 Enhanced
      10. US Army AR380-19
      11. US Air Force 5020
      12. Navso P-5329-26 RL
      13. Navso P-5329-26 MFM
      14. NCSC-TG-025
      15. Bruce Schneier
      16. Gutmann
    2. Other Parameters
      1. Verification
      2. Retry Attempts
      3. Ignore Errors
      4. Clear Log File before Start
      5. Skip Confirmation
      6. Wipe out Deleted/Unused data
  7. Glossary of Terms
 

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