![]() ![]() ![]() The general consensus is that 1 or maybe even 2 passes is about all you really need to wipe a hard drive, 3 at the most, anything above that is pretty much pointless. Special Note: There has been much talk on the internet over the years about how many passes and how much sanitizing needs to be done to make the data on a drive irretrievable. Drive Wipe works on Windows 2000 and above.Įditor’s Note: Anybody wondering why other good sanitizing tools such as CCleaner or Eraser aren’t included here, it’s because they were covered in a similar article about wiping the free space on hard drives which is also well worth reading. There are 5 basic erasing methods available zero’s or one’s single pass, a zero’s and one’s 2 pass, and the DOD 3 or 7 pass methods. The program has 2 main options on startup, Wipe Partition or Wipe Disk, and you simply select the volume to wipe using the partition manager style disc layout. The program has also gained advertising in its main window in the latest release which isn’t too distracting thankfully. Since we last looked at Hardwipe it has gained the welcome addition of an official portable version although the small trade off is you don’t get the right click Explorer context menu options found in the installer version which allows you to wipe selected files, drives or free space at the click of the button. Hardwipe has quite a few useful features and in addition to erasing drives or partitions completely, it can also securely erase files, folders and the drive’s remaining free space. Disk Wipe also works on floppy disks and USB pen sticks and is compatible with Windows 95 and above. Simply select whether you want to blank the drive with zero’s or random data and enter the number of passes in the box, then click the button to erase. The program is a tiny portable executable of around 50K and can overwrite partitions or physical discs selectable from the drop down menu. Roadkil has many little useful tools and Disk Wipe is just about as easy and simple to operate as they come. ![]()
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