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Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 5
What’s New in Disk Wiper 11 ...................................................................................................................... 5
Product Components ............................................................................................................. 5
Features Overview ................................................................................................................. 6
Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface ................................................................................................................................ 6
Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ............................................................................................................................ 6
Wipe Facilities ......................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Automatization Facilities ........................................................................................................................................................ 6
Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Supported Data Erasure Algorithms ............................................................................................................ 7
Supported Technologies .............................................................................................................................. 7
Supported File Systems ............................................................................................................................... 7
Supported Media ........................................................................................................................................ 7
Getting Started ...................................................................................................................... 8
Distribution ................................................................................................................................................ 8
Distributive CD ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Online Distribution.................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Registration ............................................................................................................................................................................. 8
How to Download Updates/Upgrades .................................................................................................................................... 9
Contacting Paragon Software GmbH ........................................................................................................... 9
System Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 9
Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 10
First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 11
Building wiping media ................................................................................................................................ 12
Booting from the Linux/DOS wiping media ................................................................................................. 12
Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 15
Data Sanitization........................................................................................................................................ 15
Data Security Standards ............................................................................................................................. 15
GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 16
64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16