11 Personal

Introduction

Data security nowadays is the burning issue not only for companies and government agencies, but rank and file people

as well. Our personality is now fully embedded in computer technology. It is computer you apply to when at work, it is

also computer you use at home for entertainment or as a reservoir for containing some valuable data such as personal

correspondence, banking account information, credit card numbers, financial records, whatever… It is obvious that this

kind of data should in no way be available to others. That is why, when disposing of a storage device (a hard disk or a

flash memory drive), the crucial thing is to make sure it does not contain any information, because simple deletion, or

even reformatting do not guarantee data security at all. To do that, you need a specially designed tool.

Paragon Disk Wiper™ 11 Personal is a fast, convenient and reliable solution providing irreversible destruction of data on

separate partitions or entire hard disks (IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB, etc.) as well as any type of flash memory devices.

In this manual you will find the answers to many of the technical questions, which might arise while using the program.

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What’s New in Disk Wiper 11

 Check FS Integrity and Data Loss Policies to let you specify the acceptable balance between the operation

performance and the risk of data loss.

 Better support for 64-bit platforms to reboot your computer to one of the three special modes (Windows

native, Linux, or DOS) to automatically complete operations, which cannot be accomplished under 64-bit

Windows.

 Support of the restart-free installation.

 AFD (Advanced Format Drive) ready.

 Support of 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives.

 USB 3.0 ready.

Product Components

In order to cope with different tasks, the product contains several components:

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Windows based set of utilities is the crucial part of the product. With the help of an easy to use launcher you

may find and run tasks of any complexity in the field of data and system protection, hard disk partitioning and

cloning, etc.

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Linux/DOS based environment is a multi-platform bootable media that enables to run utilities under Linux or

PTS DOS, and that way to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes. Both platforms

have their strong sides, for instance Linux can boast support of FireWire (i.e. IEEE1394) or USB devices. It

enables to burn CD/DVD discs. However there can be some difficulties with detecting new hardware. DOS in its

turn has no problems of that kind but is limited in features. The Linux/DOS environment requires no installation

and can be of great help when the system fails to boot. Besides it offers a Windows XP like environment.