Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser 5

Publisher's description of 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. 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. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data. 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.

Version 5.0 wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.

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  Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser

  Not free with no limitations as stated here, demo only with limited capabilities

  by: whalfma on 24-Feb-2008 11:14:07 AM

  Cons: Per license agreement:

  (a) FREE DEMO COPY. You may use the full featured

  DEMO SOFTWARE without charge on an evaluation basis

  to erase floppies and hard disk drives using

  [One Pass Zeros] data destruction method only.

  You must pay the license fee and register your copy

  to get professional version of the product that can

  erase or wipe out disks using other data destruction

  methods, including DoD 5220.22-M, and the most secure

  Gutmann's method.

  To buy per website, price for this suite is 59.95 for a single license.

  Without paying for full license, you cannot make full use of the capabilities making it hard to review.

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