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4. Click on the required operation to start. Hints on the selected at the moment item will help you make the right

choice.

5. Consult the help system by pressing ALT+F1 to know more on the subject.

Our WinPE 3.0 based environment offers excellent hardware support. However in case it

doesn’t have a driver for your disk controller, your hard disks will be unavailable. Please

consult the

Adding specific drivers scenario to know how to tackle this issue.

Basic Concepts

This chapter explains terms and ideas that show how the program works. To understand these helps to obtain a general

notion of the operation performance and makes it easier for the user to operate the program.

Data Sanitization

Data security is a two-sided problem. It is to be made clear, that providing confidentiality implies not only information to

be stored properly, but also be destroyed according to certain rules. The first step to protecting yourself is to know

exactly which security precautions work and which do not.

Many people believe the misconception that repartitioning a disk will result in complete destruction of its contents.

Actually that is not quite so. Repartitioning the drive only alters references to partitions in the Partition Table, leaving all

file data intact. In fact, there are a number of programs available to successfully recover previously deleted partitions.

Formatting a drive also does not guarantee data destruction. Formatting procedure implies modification of the Master

File Table (MFT) that keeps track of where file contents are stored on the disk and verification of each sector for

consistency. Even a low-level format does not actually erase the file contents for good, since they can still be