Most of the people have some information or data that they don't want to share with other user- passwords, classified work documents, personal information, financial records, and the list never ends.
Perhaps you have stored some kind of important information on the most reliable storage medium- computer, where it is more convenient to reach. But a time comes when it required erasing these data from your computer hard drive. The situations get a bit complicated when it comes to maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of data, but it is not as simple as it seemed.
Generally user thinks that when he/she deletes the data or format the drive, the data gets deleted forever. But it’s not true, when the user deletes the data from hard drive; it doesn’t gets removed permanently. It only removes the reference of data from the file system table. In fact the file remains on the hard drive and it can be recovered. If you resell or donate your computer, anybody can recover these data using data recovery solutions and can misuse it.
If you want to erase these data permanently, you need Stellar Disk Wipe software. Disk wipe permanently and completely overwrites and wipe out the all the existing data from your hard drive. Once the Stellar Disk Wipe has been used, the data become irretrievable using data recovery solutions. You can use Stellar Disk Wipe to erase hard drive data by using these simple steps:
Step 1: Wizard Intro
Brief description about Stellar Disk Wipe is given in the introductory page of the wizard. Please review the information carefully and then click Next to proceed.
Step 2: Disk Selection
In this phase, the wizard will show all hard drives attached to the system along with its details such as Disk No., Disk Size, Model No. and Serial No. Hard disk(s) appears in the list according to the boot sequence configured in the BIOS.
Step 3: Choose Wipe Method
This phase of the wizard will provide you different wiping methods. The algorithms are arranged in such a way that the fastest one with maximum overwrite speed is on the top of the list and the algorithm with maximum number of passes towards the end.
Step 4: Start Wipe
The final phase of the wizard will give the summary of what you have chosen. It will show the selected disk and wiping method. Review the summary carefully and click Finish to continue. Incase of any changes, you have an option to click Back and revise as required. Click Cancel, if you want to exit from the wizard.
Step 5: Finish
As soon as you click Finish, confirmation message pops up. If you are sure to continue then click Yes to start wiping. When the process is complete, you get a message indicating that Stellar Disk Wipe has successfully wiped the selected hard disk.