Destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely and permanently

Active@ Kill Disk – Hard Drive Eraser

Active@ KillDisk – Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It’s a hard drive and partition eraser utility.

If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted files (using undelete file or some data recovery software) and use against the owner’s will. We highly recommend you to run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.

Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann’s data destruction method is also implemented. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever.

What’s new in version 5.0 (Windows application):

1. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.
2. Professional package now includes Windows Vista-based Bootable Disk Creator that allows you to boot Windows Vista from CD/DVD, and to erase or wipe out your disks in Windows environment. USB Plug’n'Play devices are supported.
3. The FREE application can be registered with a registration key without re-installation to be able to erase data using DoD 5220.22-M and other methods.

What’s new in version 4.1 (DOS application):

1. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.
2. Package now includes an additional REAL-MODE application (KD_REAL.EXE) which is more compatible with different types of hardware and more compact in size.

This is security software for unrecoverable data elimination for any computer capable of booting in DOS mode from floppy drive. It uses access to the drive’s data on a physical level via BIOS bypassing logical drive structure organization, thus it does not matter what operating systems and file systems located on the machine.

It can work with DOS, Windows Vista, Windows XP / 2000 / NT / XP Professional x64 / XP Home x64/ 2003 Server x64, Linux, Unix for PC etc…

Feature available in Free Version
Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive or logical partition
Erases partitions, logical drives and unused disk space
Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
Supports fixed disks, floppies, zip drives, FlashMedia drives
Supports large-sized drives (more than 128GB)
Operates from floppy disk or bootable CD-ROM drive
Erases with one-pass zeros
Supports all detected hard disk drives
Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
Includes Console Application to run and erase data under Windows
Displays detected drive and partition information
Scans NTFS and FAT volumes and displays existing and deleted files and folders
Data verification may be performed after erasing is completed
Disk Viewer allows you to preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive
Operates in DOS real mode, the most secure and reliable environment
Wipes out NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
Free Download Link : http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

Feature available in Paid Version
Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive or logical partition
Erases partitions, logical drives and unused disk space
Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
Supports fixed disks, floppies, zip drives, FlashMedia drives
Supports large-sized drives (more than 128GB)
Supports Command Line mode (can be run with no user interaction)
Operates from floppy disk or bootable CD-ROM drive
Erases with one-pass zeros
Erases with one-pass random characters
Erases with user-defined number of passes (up to 99)
US Department of Defense 5220.22 M compliant
German VISTR compliant
Russian GOST p50739-95 compliant
Gutmann method compliant
Customizable security levels
Supports all detected hard disk drives
Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
Includes Console Application to run and erase data under Windows
Displays detected drive and partition information
Scans NTFS and FAT volumes and displays existing and deleted files and folders
Data verification may be performed after erasing is completed
Disk Viewer allows you to preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive
Operates in DOS real mode, the most secure and reliable environment
Wipes out NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
Wipes out free clusters (unused by file data sectors)
Wipes out file slack space (unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by file)
Wipes out deleted MFT and ROOT system records
Wipes out unused space in any MFT records and compressed clusters
Wipes out free clusters (unused by file data sectors)
Wipes out file slack space (unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by file)
Wipes out deleted MFT and ROOT system records
Wipes out unused space in any MFT records and compressed clusters