Technical data

6.2 Automatic troubleshooting

rors, which occur during the verification run, are also counted as verification errors. Therefore,

the number of verification errors gives you absolute information on the amount of sectors

where secure deletion could not be confirmed. In case of an error-free deletioning process,

HDShredder should not report any verification errors and signalize a 100% conformity with the

deletion patterns written.

6.3 Deleting a sector area

In case of an area deletion, the medium is not used as a whole. Only a partial area of the selec-

ted medium (drive or partition) is used for the deletion.

6.3.1 Usage

The dialog page Options provides the possibility to specify an exactly definable sector area

(5.9.3 Options for the medium). To specify a sector area, activate the check box Sector area

and enter the starting (from) and the ending (to) sector of the area to define. These sectors

are interpreted as the first and the last sector of the are, i.e. they are included with the area.

Note: The sector counting starts with with ‘0’ (= 1

sector of the medium). Accordingly, all fur-

ther sector numbers have to be decreased by 1, too (e.g. from = 0, to = 99999 defines the

first 100000 sectors on the medium as an area).

Warning: You should not conduct an area deletion unless you are completely aware of its

functioning and possible consequences. A sector area, which has not been defined with ex-

pertise may lead to undeleted data remaining on the medium.

6.3.2 Functioning

The sector area is always subordinated to the selected medium (drive or partition) and is inter-

preted relatively to the starting position of the medium. Instead of using the whole medium for

the subsequent deletion process, only the defined sector area will be used. Compared to a

normal deletion, the only difference is that instead of deleting the whole drive or partition only

the defined partial area is being deleted.

Example: The values from = 0, to = 31 define an are of 32 sectors. In case of the type of the

medium is a drive, the declaration refers to the first 32 sectors on the drive. In case the type

of the medium is a partition, the declaration refers to the first 32 sectors of the partition and

may be located at an arbitrary position of the drive (depending on the partition table).

6.4 Mass deletion (MultiDelete mode)

In case of a mass deletion, multiple target media are being deleted at the same time. As a res-

ult there is a huge benefit regarding time and performance, since multiple media can be de-

leted at the same time.