11 Professional

Wipe Tasks

In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to wipe a hard disk/partition of any file system or only destroy

any remnants of deleted files/directories left on disk without affecting the used data, thus providing high level of

security.

The operation can be accomplished with the Wipe Wizard or corresponding dialogs.

Wizard Startup

 In the Main Menu: select Wizards > Wipe Hard Disk or Partition…

There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview

chapter to know more on the subject.

Wizard Setup

The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation:

 The hard disk/partition to wipe. Select a hard disk/partition the data of which you want to destroy.

 Wipe mode. This section enables to switch between two options:

- Wipe out all data. Select the option to irreversibly destroy all on-disk data of the selected object.

- Clear (wipe) free space. Select the option to destroy any remnants of deleted files/directories left on disk

without affecting the used data.

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The Clear Free Space operation is available only for Logical and Primary partitions of known

file systems.