User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- About Acronis DriveCleanser
- Confidential information on hard disks: storage and access
- Confidential information: destruction
- Data deletion with the means of an operating systems
- Guaranteed destruction of confidential information: standard
- Software usage conditions
- Technical support
- Installing Acronis DriveCleanser and Getting Started
- Wiping Hard Disks with Acronis DriveCleanser
As an example let’s create a simple custom algorithm similar to the American
standard. As you may remember, the American standard assumes three passes
for a hard disk during which different symbols are written to it, and one more
pass for verification – i.e. 4 passes in total.
The window with number of passes of the custom algorithm
Let us remind you that the predefined wiping algorithms perform from 1 (fast
algorithm, the Russian standard) up to 35 passes (Peter Gutmann algorithm).
You may enter any value into the spinner field of the Wizard window with
keyboard or mouse. For our example enter 4 into this field.
Click the
Next button to continue.
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